Anyone know anything about Quark?

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Dunno why I'm asking ILE about this, but anyway. We at the uni paper have got a problem. It is 24 past 2 on Wednesday morning and we've found that two of our pages have decided to eat up large chunks of text then regurgitate them. and we'd quite like the original articles back, please. And we don't know how to get them.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)

What do you mean "eaten"?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I know one thing - everyone in my work pronounces it 'Quork' and it freaks me out.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, it's taken two articles and cut bits out, duplicated bits in the wrong place, come up with three rows of umlauted E's... it's horrid and crap and it's NEARLY THREE O'FUCKING CLOCK ARRRRRRRGH.

But yes. that's what I mean. I think.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Have you tried "Revert to saved" (Or use Save as to make a copy of the current file, then reopen the old one)?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:42 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.yesterdayland.com/images/popopedia/shows/primetime/pt1435.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, just replace the rogue pages with that - everyone will love you.

― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Naturally, you've got Quark set up to do an auto-backup on save. Of course you have, because to risk losing days of work when your sole copy gets corrupted would be the mark of an utter novice.

Cut'n'paste into a new document is the usual recovery route when Quark throws one of its periodic wobblies. And, as with all Mac apps, if it won't behave nicely show it who's boss by trashing the preferences.

― chris j (chris j), Thursday, 20 February 2003 02:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, oddly enough, we didn't. But we found the original text files of the articles and things are OK for now.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, sounds like you have a bad font. That's usually the case at least, if I ever get strange characters that don't belong,

― Mandee, Thursday, 20 February 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Sounds like a PC v. Mac compat problem to me, -- also the string of nonsense you get when you open a newer PC Word file in an older Word program sounds similar

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 20 February 2003 05:52 (twenty-three years ago)

It's what Germans call sour cream.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 February 2003 09:52 (twenty-three years ago)

we have that in the uk colin also except it's not really sour

william BS that sounds to me like a document app wz being read as a difft document app somehow (like how if you have something in claris works and open in it in word, it'll come out like that... w.stuff moved around and Äs for spaces and whatever)

so maybe when you have time on yr hands check the filters into quark, and make sure they're all up to date => routinely on quark upgrades these are things that fuck up, it's v.boring

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:24 (twenty-three years ago)

if the worst comes to the worst you can always just copy over from the document app to quark then format by hand, instead of Get File from within quark

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, you might even get such behaviour with a "quick save" Word file imported with get text. fix: do a proper "save as" of the Word doc. it's difficult to really tell from the info given.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:31 (twenty-three years ago)

u can't get better than a Quick Save Fixer

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 20 February 2003 11:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that Rowan Atkinson in the center of that group in the pic above?

― Skottie, Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:02 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.netmoon.com/startrek/imageds9/quark.jpg

― Wyndham Earl, Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
And sure any he has it's all beside the mark

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:12 (twenty-three years ago)

which is allegedly where the name for the particle came from. i.e. it rhymes with Mark. this has not stopped the US pronouncing the particle to rhyme with pork. the page layout program Quark is also pronounced this way in the US.

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:17 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.apple.com/macosx/applications/adobe/images/indesign.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

*sigh*

― Alan (Alan), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, no-one has mentioned how good it tastes on Krackawheat. In my top ten cheeses.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 20 February 2003 12:54 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.kadu.demon.co.uk/media/archives/quarklp.gif

― Simeon (Simeon), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I know it's not really sour, Mark -- only I learned all my milk product vocabulary in Austrian German, and it's utterly different from German German. I mean Milch = Milch and Käse = Käse, but that's it, that's all the agreement there is. My wife sends me to the store for some Schlagobers, I end crying hysterically in front of some indifferent Aldi employee.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 20 February 2003 14:39 (twenty-three years ago)

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