[Swlug] DIY Geiger counter

[James R. Haigh (+ML.LUG subaddress)]

At Z+0000=2025-03-09Sun21:44:56, Rhys Sage sent:
> 
>                     +        +
>                     |        |
>                     |        >
>                     >        < R
>                     < R      > 3
>                     > 4      <
>           fast      <        |      OPEN-COLLECTOR
>         Schottky    |    R2  C      AMPLIFIED
> CRYSTAL --|>|--o----o--\/\/\--B  C-- OUTPUT (INVERTED)
>               |    |        E--B  TO PULLED-UP ADC OR
>               |+  >            E  CURRENT-LIMITED LED
>           low ---  < R          |
>           ESR ---  > 1          |
>               |    <            |
>               |    |            |
>               -    -            -
> 

    Ah, okay, that's not helpful -- your quote of my message reveals that your software is slightly mangling my ASCII-art schematics -- not by much at all (I've seen much worse manglings in replies in the past) so I did not notice it at 1st glance, but just enough for it to have lost much of its clarity, especially in the lower half in this instance.

    Several spaces have gone missing.  Sometimes runs of whitespace get replaced with a single space, but that is not what is happening here.  The pattern is much more subtle.  I think I have worked it out.  It has removed a single space in any run of spaces that has an odd number of spaces greater than 1.  /Surely/ a bug!  I've never seen that one before, but definitely I have counted that all runs of spaces in your quote have either an even number of spaces, or exactly 1 space as a common exception, but 3, 5, 7, 9, etc. spaces and /nope/ it drops 1 of them.  Very strange little bug there!

    I don't know how crappy little bugs like that actually get out into production software, and it happens all the bloody time as well.

    Anyway, you can probably see it how it is meant to be by selecting "view source" and scrolling down to it, which should avoid stupid bugs like this one.  But anyway, I have attached a screenshot of exactly how it looks for me, as well as a screenshot of my latest email with a new schematic.  Should dodge the whitespace-eating bugs! :-)

Kind regards,
James.
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