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From: frankng@basser.oz (Frank Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Simon cdev
Message-ID: <1552@basser.oz>
Date: 22 Oct 88 05:55:41 GMT
References: <3607@cs.utexas.edu> <1540@basser.oz> <3653@cs.utexas.edu>
Reply-To: frankng@basser.oz (PUT YOUR NAME HERE)
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <3653@cs.utexas.edu> kelvin@cs.utexas.edu (Kelvin Thompson) writes:
>In article <1540@basser.oz>, frankng@basser.oz (Frank Ng) writes:
>>> Simon is neato, except it seems to offset the position of the time of
>>> day whereever it is displayed.
>>> 
>>> -- Kelvin Thompson
>> 
>> This is not a bug with Simon[...].  If the
>> current time combined with the time format you have chosen yield too
>> long a string, the string will run off (to the left) of its
>> anticipated area.
>
>I don't think that's the whole story.  The only thing I changed with
>Simon was the capitalization of AM/PM (they are capitalized by default,
>and I changed them to all lower case).  This should not make the time
>take up more space (if anything, it should make it slightly skinnier).
>It looks to me like Simon is putting a space after am/pm.

Kelvin,

I think I know what the problem is, and sorry I didn't mention this is
my first reply.

Then menu selections for Simon's morning and evening suffixes are the
strings " AM", " PM", " am", " pm", " Am", " Pm".  I put the space in
between the time and date because I thought it was more aesthetically
pleasing.  Unfortunately I didn't realize it would mean that the
string will not look good with the alarm clock or in the General cdev.

I would be happy to email you a copy which doesn't have the leading
space if you email me a request.

Frank
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