User talk:Kemis

Hi... I saw your edits to Linotype machine. It looks like you took the original text, made some small changes to it, and then inserted it as additional text, twice. So the result was three nearly identical copies of the article. I assume that wasn't what you meant to do. Rather than try to sort through the different copies of the text, I reverted the changes. Please continue making improvements to articles, but you may want to review the edit help and use the "Show preview" button to verify that the result you end up is what you intended. Paul Koning 15:35, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Linotype machine article apparently cannot be edited
Hi, I went to edit the article Linotype machine, and the original text did not appear in the editing box. When I pasted in my revised article, it was merely added to the existing article. I did this twice, and that was not my intention. I tried other topics, and the original text appears for editing, but not for the Linotype machine article. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That's odd! It works for me, and I haven't see a problem like that. Did you click on the "Edit this page" tab? If you click on the "Edit" link in the right margin, that edits a particular section. If you click on the "+" tab at the top of the page, that adds a new section. It doesn't look like you did one of those but I figured I'd ask.


 * Could it be that some security setting on your browser is causing problems? That seems odd.  I use Firefox 2, with the default settings (I think -- close to default, anyway). Paul Koning 17:10, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Random thought. Can your browser display Japanese text?  There's a link to the Japanese version of that article.  That shows up in the original text when you edit.  If your browser can't handle Japanese text, that may be throwing it off.  Usually it would show substitute characters, though, but it may be that some browsers get this wrong and instead just pretend there isn't any text there.  If your browser has such a thing, you might set it to "Unicode" (or UTF-8) text encoding.  In Firefox, that's on the View menu item, under "Character encoding.  Paul Koning 17:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thank you for the reply. Yesterday was the first time I have ever been on this site.


 * I can usually click on the small "edit" link on the bottom right-hand corner of a page, and then go from there. With "Linotype machine," I only get the bottom link additions, but not the top, original text. Yesterday I created a new article, titled "Linotype," pasted my edited page into that, and I can't access that for editing. When I use the "edit this page" tab at the top of the page, I get a dialog box that says I'm about to download an index of some sort. I reloaded my platform this morning (Ghost image, created before ever going on line with a new install), thinking that maybe something was keeping me from accessing certain features. No such luck. What is the index that tries to download to my computer? Thank you for your time. I have been in the printing business since the age of 12, and very knowledgeable of Linotypes. My Linotype is from 1912.


 * I'm useing IE, and I could upgrade, but do you have some of these problems too, the index wanting to download, and the article "Linotype" not having an "edit" button?


 * Actually, Linotype did exist -- it's a disambiguation page. I've restored it.


 * I see "index.php" being loaded as part of the process of loading pages. If your IE thinks that's a file that should be downloaded, that's a problem.  I can't imagine why things would be set that way.  It may be that upgrading IE will help; or it may be that Firefox will work better.  (I avoid IE as much as possible.)


 * You own a Linotype? Lucky guy.  All I have is the book.  (I scanned some of the drawings -- I've been planning to get those included into this article.)  Paul Koning 18:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Well, I installed Firefox, and I'm still not able to view the original text for the Linotype machine article. When I click on the "edit this page" tab, I still get the download dialog box, but of course, it's now a bit different. Oh well. I have a lot of work to do. Thank you for your interest.


 * Maybe your Windows Registry is messed up, for the "php" extension. I suppose there's always Linux... or Mac...  :-)  Paul Koning 19:03, 18 June 2007 (UTC)