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Simple text extract is an example of one possible way to present a short text of a simple paragraph structure.  Once (after multiple trial-and-error iterations) I've developed the structure that I found to be satisfactory, I try to be consistent in using it throughout the entire web site.  My first experiments were inevitably manual, later I've written a program in PowerBASIC to convert the scanned text into the HTML paragraph structure of a simple extract.

While each text extract is individual and on most part requires certain adjustments after automatic conversion, the basic principles of simple text extract presentation are the same for the format that I'm using.  Some of them, like overall HTML layout, use of indentation, navigation bars, font usage, background setup, and HTML text HEAD structure are common for almost all pages of this web site.  Those principles can be summarized as follows:

Note:  To maintain a proper formatting of this document some excessively long lines of code have been split into parts (for a presentation purpose only).  Those line split points are indicated either by a light green highlighted space "  " (line splicing is optional), or by a light red highlighted space "  " (line splicing is required for code to be valid).  Regardless of the sliced line parts' indentation, line splicing should be done in such a way that first character of the next line part follows immediately the corresponding split point indicator (highlighted space) of the previous line part.


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      <FONT SIZE=4 COLOR=Red><B><U>The&nbsp; Joys&nbsp; of&nbsp; the&nbsp; Craft</U></B></FONT><BR><BR>
      <FONT COLOR=Navy><B>Frederic Brooks, Jr.</B></FONT>
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>W</B></FONT>hy is programming fun?&nbsp; What delights
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>F</B></FONT>irst is the sheer joy of making things.&nbsp;
      As the child delights in his mud pie, so the adult enjoys building things,
      especially things of his own design.&nbsp; I think this delight must be an
      image of God's delight in making things, a delight shown in the distinctness
      and newness of each leaf and each snowflake.
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>S</B></FONT>econd is the pleasure of making things that
      are useful to other people.&nbsp; Deep within, we want others to use our
      work and to find it helpful.&nbsp; In this respect the programming system
      is not essentially different from the child's first clay pencil holder
      "for Daddy's office."
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>T</B></FONT>hird is the fascination of fashioning complex
      puzzle-like objects of interlocking moving parts and watching them work in
      subtle cycles, playing out the consequences of principles built in from the
      beginning.&nbsp; The programmed computer has all the fascination of the
      pinball machine or the jukebox mechanism, carried to the ultimate.
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>F</B></FONT>ourth is the joy of always learning, which
      springs from the nonrepeating nature of the task.&nbsp; In one way or another
      the problem is ever new, and its solver learns something: sometimes practical,
      sometimes theoretical, and sometimes both.
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>F</B></FONT>inally, there is the delight of working in
      such a tractable medium.&nbsp; The programmer, like the poet, works only
      slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.&nbsp; He builds his castles in
      the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.&nbsp; Few media
      of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable
      of realizing grand conceptual structures.&nbsp; (As we shall see later,
      this very tractability has its own problems.)
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    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>Y</B></FONT>et the program construct, unlike the poet's
      words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible
      outputs separate from the construct itself.&nbsp; It prints results, draws
      pictures, produces sounds, moves arms.&nbsp; The magic of myth and legend
      has come true in our time.&nbsp; One types the correct incantation on a
      keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never
      were nor could be.
    <P><FONT COLOR=Red><B>P</B></FONT>rogramming then is fun because it gratifies
      creative longings built deep within us and delights sensibilities we have
      in common with all men.
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