discards

Hi
Having just scored the Tiger Trophy at RSC (my largest number of results
entries so far - nearly1000) I was a bit perturbed when someone queried the
discards they and others had been awarded. When I investigated it was a
complete misunderstanding of he printout - the cross through lines, on the
website, made the 9 look like a 0. The complainant was mortified but then
did point out that there were others ways of showing the discard - brackets
or shading - that might have meant the confusion not arising in the first
place.

Can Sw do this or is it limited to the 1 format?
laura

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Hi Laura

I have to agree in that when a fourth place is discarded, there is no
visible change to the 4 to show the discard. I would also like to
suggest that an alternative discard indicator be used.

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On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 18:17 +0000, guy @ virgin net wrote:

Hi
Having just scored the Tiger Trophy at RSC (my largest number of results
entries so far - nearly1000) I was a bit perturbed when someone queried the
discards they and others had been awarded. When I investigated it was a
complete misunderstanding of he printout - the cross through lines, on the
website, made the 9 look like a 0. The complainant was mortified but then
did point out that there were others ways of showing the discard - brackets
or shading - that might have meant the confusion not arising in the first
place.

Can Sw do this or is it limited to the 1 format?
laura

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Laura/Dave
A workaround is to use one (1) decimal in the scoring. This leaves 4.0 with
a visible change if discarded. To change the numbers of decimals used click
"scoring system" and change the "Round points to this many decimal places"
to 1 instead of 0

Alternative ways of showing a discard might be (4.0) or [4.0].

Håvard Ravn Ottesen
Race officer
Trondhjems Yachtclub

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Fra: Dave le Roux [mailto:davelr@worldonline.co.za]
Sendt: 20. februar 2005 17:51
Til: Sailwave user group
Emne: Re: [sailwave] discards

Hi Laura

I have to agree in that when a fourth place is discarded, there is no
visible change to the 4 to show the discard. I would also like to
suggest that an alternative discard indicator be used.

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 18:17 +0000, guy @ virgin net wrote:

Hi
Having just scored the Tiger Trophy at RSC (my largest number of results
entries so far - nearly1000) I was a bit perturbed when someone queried

the

discards they and others had been awarded. When I investigated it was a
complete misunderstanding of he printout - the cross through lines, on the
website, made the 9 look like a 0. The complainant was mortified but then
did point out that there were others ways of showing the discard -

brackets

or shading - that might have meant the confusion not arising in the first
place.

Can Sw do this or is it limited to the 1 format?
laura

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Hi

I agree that alternative discard indication would be good.

Some changes can be obtained by messing with the CSS style sheets.
The strike through is obtained because Sailwave surrounds the
discarded results with the <strike> HTML tag.

Therefore, if you edit the Sailwave style sheet (or create a custom
style sheet) you can remove the strikethrough by adding the line:

strike {text-decoration:none}

You can further change the appearance by adding extra parameters,
such as:

strike {text-decoration:underline;font-style:italic}

It's also possible to surround the discarded scores with text, but
this does not work with Internet Explorer, so it's best not to depend
on it. The lines to be added in this case would be:

strike {text-decoration:none}
strike:before {content:"["}
strike:after {content:"]"}

Hope this helps.

Doug

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<laura.harwood@s...> wrote:

Hi
Having just scored the Tiger Trophy at RSC (my largest number of

results

entries so far - nearly1000) I was a bit perturbed when someone

queried the

discards they and others had been awarded. When I investigated it

was a

complete misunderstanding of he printout - the cross through lines,

on the

website, made the 9 look like a 0. The complainant was mortified

but then

did point out that there were others ways of showing the discard -

brackets

or shading - that might have meant the confusion not arising in the

first

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place.

Can Sw do this or is it limited to the 1 format?
laura

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