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  1. Posted

    On 04/10/2017 at 3:22 AM, Don Edwards said:

    epub and kindle format are HTML plus some header files. For whatever that's worth.

    EPUB is a collection of various XML formats plus CSS and assets in a ZIP, the text itself is in XHTML (XML-serialised HTML). A couple things in the archive must be stored first in a specific manner/order, the rest is in arbitrary order.

    The Kindle format is complicated by multiple versions (the MOBI format descends from PRC, AZW from MOBI, the AZW3/KF8 format doesn't but attaches as an extra record to a stub or duplicate of the text in AZW format, and I haven't the foggiest about AZW8/KFX). However, I gather the KF8 and EPUB formats to differ mainly in their container format (i.e. a AZW3 is not a ZIP).

  4. Posted

    11 hours ago, hkmaly said:

    The fact you are logged in on this forum proves that's not true.

    To elaborate on the above for those unaware: when you log in to a site, what actually happens is that you get assigned a "session cookie", which basically contains an authorisation token which the site generated and will accept as ID for a specific user.　This is instead of having to type your username and password every time you want to comment or change any preference.

    It will still require your password if you want to change your password, but that's to stop people who might access your computer or otherwise obtain use of your session cookie (e.g. via spyware) from then changing your password to something they know and you don't.

  6. Posted

    3 minutes ago, mlooney said:

     :cheerleadra_shrug:, :cool_susan:, :demonic_duck:,

     

    I don't see what the box does, however.

    Say if I type a : followed by a D and press Space

    :D

    I get a forum emote, because the current version of the script doesn't override the forum emotes unless told otherwise.

    Now, say that I do the same, but click "editor" in that box after I'm finished.

    :D 

  8. Posted

    46 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Where may a list of these emotes be found, please?

    angry_tedd, ashley, catgirl_kitty, catgirl_sarah, cheerleadra_shrug, cool_susan, dem_abs, dem_curves, demonic_duck, diane, ellen, elliot, girly_tedd, grace, griffin_andrea, griffin_tara, justin, mall_elliot, nanase, noah, oh_snap, pink_tedd, poof, sarah, soon_grace, susan, tea, tedd, tedd_anger, tf_watch, time_to_duel, urge_to_kill, vampire_sarah, werwolf_nanase, wizard_sarah

  9. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    Clarify.

    Current version.

    Changes:

    • While the forum's default emotes are no longer interfered with automatically/aggressively, a small box has been added to the bottom-right of the screen which allows forum emotes to be changed to those used by the script, either for the editor (excluding block quotations) or for the entire page, including the editor (affecting the editor will affect the post, affecting the rest of the page will only affect how it looks to you).  It is small, quite unobtrusive, harmonious with my interface fixes and can be easily dismissed (but if it's still irritating, tell me so I can remove it).
    • Updated list of EGS Discord emotes; that is, added :noah: (:noah:).

  12. Posted

    30 minutes ago, Vorlonagent said:

    That's what I mean.

    If Will says "common" that ought to be taken from his frame of reference.  His frame of reference is as an Uryouom hatched and raised on Earth and should reflect CMD availability on Earth.  You'd expect they would be something of a necessity.

    As you imply, however, there are plenty of gifted human programmers who would crack the legal CMD programming language just to say they did it.  Maybe Uryouoms are different?  I dunno. 

    You'd think there'd be at least an underground community on the Uroyuom homeworld which has legal CMD units thoroughly hacked, but Will and Gill would never have brought their gray market (pardon the pun) TF Gun to Ed Verres if they had access to hacked CMDs that could give them fully human forms.

    Equating *that* Avater and Lord of the Rings in any way seems rather off to me.  You weren't happy with Peter Jackson's work?  I can understand why people might be a bit put out by his "Hobbit" movies.  I know I found them disappointing, but the Lord of the Rings was top-notch stuff.

    ...the way Avatar wasn't. 

    M. Night Shamalan and Michael Bay. Two directors with fatal flaws to their style who get plenty of movie work and really shouldn't...

    hkmaly linked James Cameron, not Shyamalan.

  14. Posted · Edited by HarJIT

    Wrt arc, or rather line, names in Sister:

    “You look in the mirror, but someone else looks back. You remember a life you never had, one that cannot be yours. You are the piece that does not fit, you don't belong in this game. The board has been knocked over, you shall be swept away…”  —Dan Shive

    (This was packed into a strip title for some reason.)

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  19. Posted

    On 22/06/2017 at 10:29 PM, mlooney said:

    Wait, testing what might as well be my default :rage:  OK Rage works, what about happy, happy, joy, joy?

    :slight_smile::slight_smile::joy::joy:  So close.

    How about my standard stuff?

    :writing_hand::pencil:  Oh, wait :pencil:  There we go.

    :relieved::frowning2:

    :angry:

    OK @HarJIT, you see what you need to fix now :smile:

    Plus :sob:

    All kidding about my mutant brain aside, good work dude.

    Update just for you (accepts your made up shortcodes as well as hyphens in asciimotes).  :slight_smile::slight_smile: Also changed what :) / :-) and :( / :-( map onto (the database of asciimote-to-emoji conversions I was using was seemingly based on b&w emoji and didn't quite get the best matches for graphical ones).

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  22. Posted · Edited by HarJIT
    Fix broken link.

    Edit: I've just realised how confusing this initial post must have been to people just coming in here from the sticky. So, here we go:

    These are some scripts provided in the hope of improving (more precisely, in the spirit of "fixing") your forum experience. I have no affiliation with the forum's root admins; I am not selling any of this: I do not guarantee safety, fitness or anything else.

    To do any of this you need one of the addons Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, or a compatible equivalent, installed. Greasemonkey currently works on Seamonkey and on Firefox ESR. Tampermonkey currently works on Firefox Quantum, Chromium and Chrome.

    • Firstly, I strongly recommend that you install my interface fixes, which is likely to fix any grievances or glitches you have with the default stylesheet and theming.
    • Secondly, if you wish to have a larger range of emotes available, I have written another script to do that. When this was written, the forum emotes were broken: this is no longer the case but I've kept the script around for anyone who likes the greater choice of emotes or prefers the twemoji images. Note that this does not come with a selector, all input is by colon codes. Current version.

    Original post (archived):

     

    (Original title: Greasemonkey Emoji / Emote script)

    The title says it all.

    Let's start with what this is not (presently):

    • It is not an upgrade to my interface fixes, nor does it incorporate any of their functionality.  They are separate scripts.  My interface fixes work entirely by injecting CSS, which could be e.g. ported to user-stylesheet managers or even potentially installed server-side as a stylesheet.  Hence I wanted to keep this separate.  Nonetheless, I recommend that you install them first.
    • It does not fix extend the graphical emote selector.
    • It does not fix the rendering of broken emotes in existing posts. Moot now.
    • It does not convert ASCII emoticons, nor (to my knowledge) affect the forum's built-in (broken) such mechanism.
    • I am not selling it; I do not guarantee safety, fitness or anything else.

    Many of these functionalities (barring the first) may appear as features in future revisions, but I wanted to get something out there promptly.

    So, what does it do? (Edit: all the following occur in the editor, not on existing posts)

    • Detect shortcodes (alphacodes, colon codes) for Emoji and convert them to twemoji embeds.
    • Detect Unicode representations of Emoji and convert them to twemoji embeds (thus avoiding posting SMP characters, which the forum blocks).
    • Detect shortcodes from a hardcoded list of custom emotes available on EGS Discord, and convert them to embeds.
    • :relaxed::smile::demonic_duck::blush::eyes::tedd:
    • Edit: detect ASCII emoticons and attempt to match them to emoji.  To try and avoid matching parts of shortcode sequences, this will only detect those followed by a space.
    • Edit: detect broken forum emotes and attempt to fix them.  This includes those inserted by the forum's built in emote code in the editor, as well as those in pre-existing posts.
    • Edit: coöperate with the forum's now-repaired built in emote mechanism.

    [Original], very early revision. Current version.

  24. Posted

    2 minutes ago, CritterKeeper said:

    Wow, I had only just learned about there being a Unicode for the Vulcan Salute, after a minor WikiWalk, and had it in my copy-paste ready to post here.  Then I go to check today's comics, and discussions thereof....and discover that the boards won't post the unicode symbol.

    From Wikipedia: "in June 2014 it was added to version 7 of the Unicode standard as U+1F596  RAISED HAND WITH PART BETWEEN MIDDLE AND RING FINGERS."

    Yeaaah, hence I'm using an image embed with the ASCII shortcode as alt-text.

    Not sure why emoji symbols are blocked, is the board limited to UCS-2 or something?

    Testing a Basic Multilingual Plane emoji (rare breed as they are): ☺

    Edit: yup, seems we're limited to UCS-2 and the BMP.

  25. Posted

    @ProfessorTomoe @Stature I am doing this for a reason.  I have some code in place in my Markdown parser for handling Emoji, and I've recently managed it to produce output that the forum wouldn't reject.  Basically, I just need to isolate this (IE make a version separate from the Markdown parser) and translate it to Javascript, add some glue code for the forum and I should have a working solution.  How long before this I don't know, but that's what I'm experimenting with.