Brevity by Dan Thompson for November 10, 2011

Now thats just cold. I love it.

I think Superman always plays stud poker……

When he was first caught reading cards with his X-ray vision, the tabloids dubbed him “The Man of Stealing.”

but I…. um….. blush to admit….. I’ve got nothing else up my sleeve cos I don’t know who that guy in the wheelchair is….

Of course! Thanks itisme - it is me who feels silly now!

Whenever you want to know how someone did something clever such as SusanSunshine did, right-click the page, and select “view source”. (The precise wording varies among browsers, but “source” is what you want.) If you don’t see the comment right away in the resulting new window, click ctrl-F (i.e. open “Find”) and type in a key word, e.g. in the above example “blush”.

I knew xavier, but the weirdo in the cape threw me

actually, it reminds me of a joke involving superman, wonder woman and the invisible man. the punchline is “I don’t know but my butt is killing me!”

Ronald Davis, I haven’t tried it since the merger, but before that, doing what you suggest was useless. They replaced code for such things with the html and if you typed html directly, it was stripped.Dogsniff, replace the curly brackets below with angle brackets and presto, whatever the TEXT was is small.{small}TEXT{/small}

How about if they line the backs of the cards with a film of lead?Thank you Dogsniff and Ronald Davis for your advice(s). Always love to learn new tricks.@Ronald Davis: You wouldn’t happen to be the Ronald Davis that worked at AEP would you?

Custom avatar, hotlines to the artists, knowledge of all the typeface tricks, instant recall of every pun possible—with all those super powers, I bet SusanSunshine is the secret identity of Supergirl.

Professor X could manipulate Superman’s mind and make him think he sees different cards. Or, being so-called good guys, they could just agree up front not to cheat.

Now we just need Gambit to enter the game – that’s when the game will really get pick up some energy.

ElGuapo and MadVirgo - Yeah, yeah….. blow my cover for me, thanks.

I’m SO very super I learned a few HTML tricks on the web (but don’t ask me to make a web page), and I can communicate with cartoonists because I’ve mastered the amazing superpower of e-mail!!

And rOdd did draw me my very super avatar (thanks again rOdd!)…..

But if I were really SuperComicsGirl, Superman and Xavier would answer my e-mail too…. but …..sigh…. they haven’t.

Aaand — @Dogsniff and Ronald and Larry — sorry I always get back too late to answer questions….

(I stay up very late and sleep late on the West Coast, so I’m way behind some of you.)

The problem with searching in source code (aside from having to plow through all the formatting stuff like cell padding — whatever that is)

is that website code seems much more complicated than some of the shorter “tricks” allowed here.

For instance we don’t have to use “strong” in brackets to make bold — we just have to put asterisks at each end.

We don’t need the code that tells the browser this will be HTML, or in what position,

and we can type stuff like apostrophes, even though the source spells out the code for them.

But yeah, Small font is just the word “small”, in angle brackets, at each end, turned “off” with a forward slash in the last set.

You got it, Dogsniff!

Italic is the same using the letter “i” instead of the word “small”.

I merely spent some time Googling this stuff and learning from online tutorials — I actually know very little. But it’s fun!

Well, I hate to just give away the powers of the Masters Of The Universe, but here’s the way these things are done (and I believe this is courtesy of “The Old Wolf” – hope I have that right; my apologies if not):Mysterious Secrets Of Go Comics

As The Old Wolf’s Guide is a work in progress, here are some addition font codes;Subscript (sub ~)What you type: H₂SO₄<code>What we read: H₂SO₄Superscript (sup ^)What you type: <code> C³I<code>What we read: C³IInsert (ins +)What you type: <code> This why we <ins>love</ins> fall <code>What we read: This why we <ins>love</ins> fallDelete (del -)What you type: <code> This why we –hate- love fall <code>What we read: This why we –hate- love fallSmall Text (small)What you type: <code> Hey, <small>Let's see some small text</small><code>What we read: Hey, <small>Let's see some small text</small>Big Text (big)What you type: <code> Another <big>big</big> idea <code>

Well, that did not turn out at all well.

As The Old Wolf’s Guide is a work in progress, here are some addition font codes;Subscript (sub ~)What you type: H₂SO₄<code>What we read: H₂SO₄Superscript (sup ^)What you type: <code> C³I<code>What we read: C³IInsert (ins +)What you type: <code> This why we <ins>love</ins> fall <code>What we read: This why we <ins>love</ins> fallDelete (del -)What you type: <code> This why we –hate- love fall <code>What we read: This why we –hate- love fallSmall Text (small)What you type: <code> Hey, <small>Let's see some small text</small><code>What we read: Hey, <small>Let's see some small text</small>Big Text (big)What you type: <code> Another <big>big</big> idea <code>

As The Old Wolf’s Guide is a work in progress, here are some addition font codes;Subscript (sub ~)What you type: H₂SO₄What we read: H2SO4

Superscript (sup ^)What you type: C³IWhat we read: C3I

Insert (ins +)What you type: This why we <ins>love</ins> fall What we read: This why we love fall

Delete (del – )What you type: This why we -hate- love fall What we read: This why we hate love fall

Small Text (small)What you type: Hey, <small>Let's see some small text</small>What we read: Hey, Let’s see some small text

Big Text (big)What you type: Another <big>big</big> idea What we read: Another big idea

They say the third time’s a charm.But the first two really sucked hind #$# and I can’t delete them.So be careful when you try to format your comments.

I must try that [small]text[small]

Did not work for me (or were those the wrong brackets? Too late to look for source etc -my bedtime!

Gee, x_tech, the first two were clear as mud. LOL!Wonder why you can’t delete them?

Did you paste them in as formatted text? Cos none of your instructions are in the forum font, either.

Anyway, I (sniffle) thought what was already there was enough for one day.

After all, we have to maintain some mystery!

Thanks Larry — more on today’s forum (11-11-11)