This is a demonstration photo here to show you a few "tricks" I discovered using while composing and up-loading "Photo Captions" into Gallery (Powered by Gallery v1.4.2, ~New ~Fall 2003). As you may have already noticed, the minimum width of any caption is often, controlled by the width of the photo above the caption. This is especially true in the "eighteen thumbnails" view. As you may have already observed, I have elsewhere in this Gallery used a dotted line, composed of a series of 36 periods (dots) with no spaces to get the width I wanted.

In this caption, I have used a dotted line, composed of a series of 2x36=72 periods (dots) with no spaces here. ************************************************************************ Any series of un-interrupted characters (i.e. no spaces) will do this. For example, a long web-address (URL) in which no spaces are allowed will show up as widening the column of text in the "eighteen thumbnails" view. Here I have not introduced the long dotted line so you can see how narrow the column gets in the "eighteen thumbnails" view.

Another thing I have noticed is that the text print (font size) will stay the same, even if the html code for paragraph is introduced, and/or the "carriage return" key-stroke is used for a paragraphs, as I have done at the start of this paragraph. (Sometimes the "carriage return" key-stroke may come from other text source, such as a Microsoft Word document, and you don't know to look for this particular trouble maker!!) Everything is fine. You get the paragraphs you want and don't notice any problems!

Things are fine until you introduce both the paragraph HTML code and also some other HTML code, such as italics, and now the text in this paragraph is larger. And you don't know where the problem came from!! This I have done in this p paragraph with the bold and the italics. The HTML code for "small" even fails to get back to the starting font size in the caption.
The cure is to use the HTML code for "break." I have done to make this new line left justified. You can see the Result. This problem is probably only in Gallery webpages, and soon may get fixed.


Two of the HTML codes for "break" will be effective in starting a "paragraph" as I have done here. However, as you can also see the size does not go back to the smaller size we started with. If the HTML "beak" code is used through-out the caption, then you do not get the larger font, and I have been able to get a proper display of “nearly paragraphs,” without excessive creation of too much blank space below the gallery picture. This you will consistently see in the My Gallery album, "Sights and Scenes from the ZMM book."

USCA Librarian, Stan Price, recognizes the white-green trees in this photo as "Tea Olive" tree. He says they have a wonderful distinctly different aroma. Having been there and experienced this all wonderful pervading scent in the breeze, I can only agree with him! This paragraph was started with a "carriage return" introduced in a Microsoft Word Document, and imported with this entire caption by “Highlite-Copy-& Paste.”

Upload Date	:	Fri 19 Dec 2003 03:50:18 PM EST
Capture Date	:	Thu 20 Jun 2002 05:03:05 PM EDT
Image Size	:	640 x 480 (61k)