... willing to spend just 24hours of your time studying the grammar,
vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you
will be able to understand and communicateinFrenchin ... (post office) pohst
le tour (tour) la tour (tower) toor
Some nouns are always masculine or feminine no matter the sex of the
person to whom you are referring:
COUNTDOWN TO FRENCH
20
02 (015-028) ... gifted.
Gender-Changing Singular Nouns
Changing the gender of a noun can be as easy as adding an e to the mas-
culine form to get the feminine form:
ami (ah-mee) amie (ah-mee) friend
cousin (koo-zaN) cousine...
... (post office) pohst
le tour (tour) la tour (tower) toor
Some nouns are always masculine or feminine no matter the sex of the
person to whom you are referring:
COUNTDOWN TO FRENCH
20
02 (015-028) ... willing to spend just 24hours of your time studying the grammar,
vocabulary, and phrases presented in the lessons, you will find that you
will be able to understand and communicateinFrenchin ... of being and is generally shown in its
infinitive, the basic to form: to live, to laugh, to love. An infinitive is
the form of the verb before it has been conjugated. Conjugation refers to
changing...
... referring to the blending of colors into each other.
* Anchor point The heart of a Bézier curve. More on this in Hour 6, "Drawing Bézier Paths."
* Line screen Printing term referring to ... Anchor Point tool Removes an existing anchor point.
* The Convert Direction Point tool Changes a selected anchor point of one type into another.
* The Type tool Used to create headline or point type.
* ... the most important things to master in Illustrator are
the selection tools. Please allow me to explain. Illustrator can do lots of things, but it has to know
where and when to do them. Let's...
... Creating, Moving, Renaming, and Deleting Files
and Directories 113
Goals for This Hour 113
Task 6.1: Creating New Directories Using mkdir 114
Task 6.2: Copying Files to New Locations Using cp ... proved too complex, causing users to stop using
subdirectories. Another limitation in this early version was that directories couldn’t be added
while the system was running and had to be added to ... 6.3: Moving Files to New Locations Using mv 118
Task 6.4: Renaming Files with mv 119
Task 6.5: Removing Directories with rmdir 120
Task 6.6: Removing Files Using rm 121
Task 6.7: Minimizing the...
... different. In order to succeed, we must cooperate to solve
problems.
Today, information and knowledge are growing to the extent that no individual can master everything.
Cooperation allows us tolearn ... situation. Writing "suffer
from pain and agony" is like writing "suffering from suffering and
suffering". The writer could change this to "living in pain and agony" ... combine the knowledge of many, companies can
innovate, human beings can be sent into space, diseases can be conquered. We need each other to fill
in the gaps in our knowledge and understanding....
... recent books include the best-selling Creating Cool HTML 3.2 Web Pages and The
Internet Business Guide. Dave has a weekly intranet column in InfoWorld and a Web/CGI
programming column in LOGIN.
Previous ... the world to photograph the beauty of nature.
Teach Yourself UNIX in24 Hours
x
Summary 242
Workshop 243
Key Terms 243
Questions 244
Preview of the Next Hour 244
12 Advanced vi Tricks, Tools, and ... This
leads to a bit of a puzzle: When you’re working on the system, how does the system know
that you’re you? What’s to stop someone else from masquerading as you, going into your files,
prying into...
... Introduction to Cascading Style Sheets 7
Hour 1 Understanding Cascading Style Sheets 9
What Are Cascading Style Sheets? 10
Defining Style Sheets 10
Defining Cascading 10
The Origin of Cascading Style ... specific pointers
to CSS editors.
The CSSin2 4hours. com Web Site
This book has a companion site maintained by the author—that’s me—at
http://www.CSSin2 4hours. com/. At that site, you’ll find
ãDownloadable ... grandmasters. To do this, I’ve
broken down that 24- hour period into 24 lessons of one hour or less.
Now, let’s be honest—you really should not try to do everything in the book in24 hours
straight....
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Inline styles are easier to add into your page as you go along creating the HTML if
you’re doing it by hand; you won’t have to go back to the <style> ... declaration directly into an attribute. However, in the
long run it’s harder to maintain inline styles, as they’ll be scattered throughout your
HTML source.
Ultimately, the use of inline styles reduces ... A
Combining selectors A
Combining declarations A
The
<link> tag in HTML A
How to Read the Grades
As you can see, all of the CSS features on this report card, which were introduced in
Hour...
... exists by building a tree as shown earlier and
then by filling in the box model, it displays that box, either according to its own internal
rules for displaying HTML or according to the style properties ... }
Margins are always transparent, meaning that whatever background color is set on the
containing box will shine through.
There’s one more thing you need to know about margins, and that’s collapsing
margins. ... and
we’ll get into more detail about other property values later in the book.
Think of the collapse of margins as two motor homes parked next to each
other. The owner of motor home to the north...
... proportionally
top Corresponds to 50% 0%
left
Corresponds to 0% 50%
right
Corresponds to 100% 50%
bottom
Corresponds to 50% 100%
center
Corresponds to 50% 50%
top left
Corresponds to 0% 0%
top center
Same ... running on
my iBook Macintosh laptop.
FIGURE 8.5
Generic font families
in Netscape 6
(Macintosh).
Figure 8.6 shows you what the generic font families look like in Internet Explorer 6,
running ... from
changing the colors to adding drop shadows.
In this hour, youll learn
ãAdditional ways to specify the color of text
ãHowto use color effectively in Web design
ãHow to add or remove underlines...
... margin(s) to a specified size
negative measurement Reduces the margin(s) of touching boxes by a specified size
percentage Sets the margin(s) to a percentage of the containing box’s width
auto Automatically ... margins, the
value is calculated to 0. If set on a box element’s left or right margin, the margin is set to
be all remaining space within the containing box; this will move the box with the margin
to ... the margin
to one side or another. If both the left and right margins are set to auto, the box will be
centered within its containing box. A value of auto for a top or bottom margin has no
effect.
Actually,...
... later
in this hour you’ll learnto change those to other counting methods.
Examples of ordered lists include the top ten best-seller list at a bookstore or a set of instruc-
tions for making a ... table listing movie show
dates, you’d want to align the columns to the right, so that the times line up.
A sample style sheet using
text-align is shown in Listing 15.8.
LISTING 15.8 Setting the ... have learned how to use Cascading Style Sheets to
produce minor stylistic effects, such as font types, letter spacing, and paragraph indenting.
More extensive effects can be created by setting...
... choices can influence the final presenta-
tion as much as the author’s, can prove frustrating and incomprehensible to graphic
artists who are used to working in a fixed, printed medium.
324 Hour ... allow content to remain on the screen. However, neither allows con-
tent to be reloaded only in a single window; if you follow a link, you need to
reload a new HTML page containing the fixed ... way; Internet Explorer will position them according to the
current width of the viewing window. But because of these irregularities, I recommend
using fixed positioning only when setting the top...
... inappropriate or meaningless on a computer monitor. These
units correspond to real-world units of measurement used in printing and are listed
in Table 20.2.
CSS for Printing 361
20
Warning for Internet ... { margin-top: 1em;
font-weight: bold;
font-variant: small-caps;
padding-top: 1em;
border-top: 1px solid black; }
dt:first-child { border-top: none;
padding-top: none; }
dt + dd { margin-top: 0.5em; ... used
ãHow to set the dimensions and orientation of the printed page
ãHow to set page breaks
ãWhich print properties 2002s browsers support
ã What kinds of things to consider when making a print style...
... equals dogX.”
To see this script in action, load the Web page at
http://www.cssin2 4hours. com/23/
flying-23.4.html. Figure 23.5 shows the kind of result you should be able to see.
29 0672 3240 91 ch23 ... would
still be incorrect in XML. (It’s technically incorrect in HTML, too, but current browsers
are forgiving.) The proper way to write this is
<em>This is <a href=”link.html”>a link</a></em>
XML ... }
424 Hour 23
LISTING 23.5 Continued
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