[Xerte] sub/super script?

[Paul Swanson]

Great story. 

 

Never say something's not possible. I once had a boss that wanted some
kind of report out of a 3rd-party software program that used a database.
She asked our IT department for it, they told her it couldn't be done.
She asked me if I could get the information out of the program, but
didn't tell me the IT department said it couldn't be done. 

 

It took me half an hour ...

 

P

 

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2009 3:24 PM
To: Xerte list
Subject: RE: [Xerte] sub/super script?

 

 

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Subject: RE: [Xerte] sub/super script?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:59 -0800
From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk

> ... I didn't realize you could create your own tags in that way. I was
disappointed that the Flash player didn't support the <span> tag, as
that is an easy way to apply a style class. Being able to create your
own tag accomplishes much the same thing as defining a class. 

 

Truth be told, I just didn't know any better. I tried it and it worked
(except for the nesting annoyance).

You know the story of the Lear jet?
Lear was founded by Bill Lear.
You remember the 60's when the latest gadget was the transistor radio?
Lear invented that. He wanted to make a portable radio and the advent of
transistors made it possible. The one block was the field coil. Common
physics theory at the time said you could not drop the physical size of
the coil below some ratio of it's number of windings. So theoretically,
you couldn't make a coil the size he needed.

But Bill was a high school drop-out and never heard that theory, so he
just wound one the size he wanted, and it worked. ;-)
He has a daughter. He named her Shanda. Shanda Lear.

-Dave





 

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