Re: COMP: help - wierd characters/formats

I am not sure I can help with specifics but i would
like to voice an opinion. I hate abbreviations. They
are often confusing and depending on format save a
minimal amount of space. I have eliminated many from
the SIGNA checklist. I found that out of 4,000 entries
and 200 pages spelling out standards and falls only
added 2 pages. Considering the more abbreviations a
newcomer to Iris has to look up the more off-putting a
checklist is. Somehow the fact that experienced
Irisarians can easily interpret this gobbledeegook
does not really indicate any real knowledge of their
subject. I would like to see all iris checklists more
new user friendly.  for what it is worth --Bob

--- John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com> wrote:

> irisregister.com?
> 
> John
> On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Linda Mann wrote:
> 
> > I'm trying to get back to work on the Rebloom
> Checklist update and am
> > running into some character conversion "typos"
> that maybe one of you 
> > can
> > help me with offlist.  The text has probably gone
> from Mac to PC
> > (possibly back and forth a few times <g>) and
> seems to have lost 
> > correct
> > formatting for some of the ASCII characters,
> especially those that are
> > 'foreign' language characters - diacritical marks
> etc, as well as
> > fractions and some other odds and ends.  I can't
> always guess what the
> > character is supposed to be.
> >
> > An example
> > <B<K? >
> > seems to be a dimension.  In context
> > <purple B<K? band and center line>
> >
> > Sometimes, there are similar oddball things in the
> archived messages
> > here and in the online checklist, usually where
> hyphens or  quotation
> > marks are used.  Anything not a regular upper or
> lowercase letter, or
> > number.
> >
> > Is there a lookup table where I can decipher this
> stuff?
> > --
> > Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
> > East Tennessee Iris Society
> <http://www.korrnet.org/etis>
> > American Iris Society web site
> <http://www.irises.org>
> > talk archives:
> <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
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> > online R&I <http://www.irisregister.com>
> >
> >
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