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I got this from lolicat and some others. Follow the directions and play along ...
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
*** Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. ***
And here is my nearest book...
Every Inch a King - Harry Turtledove
And yet like I told you, you hardly see any Lokrians up there. Oh, they have a few guards, to keep you from sticking a temple in your hip pocket and taking it back to your hotel, but that's about all. Wait - I take it back. There was also a Lokrian woman up there. Her lines were almost as fine as the temples', and she dressed to emphasize them. Her eyes were as dark as two sloes, but it was obvious she was fast.
"Is it that you speak Narbonese?" one of my fellow foreigners asked, tipping his hat.
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Now I technically was in my office and the closest book was Windows Presentation Foundation - Unleashed, but I took this exercise to mean something other than a manual which is what my office is full of. Just for fun though ...
* Not every dependency property participates in property value inheritance. (Internally, dependency properties can opt in to inheritance by passing FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.Inherits to DependencyProperty.Register.)
* There may be other higher-priority sources setting the property value, as explained in the next section.
In this case, the latter reason is to blame. A few controls such as StatusBar, Menu, and ToolTip internally set their font properties to match current system settings. This way, users get the familiar experience of controlling their font via Control Panel. The result can be confusing, however, because such controls end up "swallowing" any inheritance from proceeding further down the element tree.
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
*** Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST. ***
And here is my nearest book...
Every Inch a King - Harry Turtledove
And yet like I told you, you hardly see any Lokrians up there. Oh, they have a few guards, to keep you from sticking a temple in your hip pocket and taking it back to your hotel, but that's about all. Wait - I take it back. There was also a Lokrian woman up there. Her lines were almost as fine as the temples', and she dressed to emphasize them. Her eyes were as dark as two sloes, but it was obvious she was fast.
"Is it that you speak Narbonese?" one of my fellow foreigners asked, tipping his hat.
----
Now I technically was in my office and the closest book was Windows Presentation Foundation - Unleashed, but I took this exercise to mean something other than a manual which is what my office is full of. Just for fun though ...
* Not every dependency property participates in property value inheritance. (Internally, dependency properties can opt in to inheritance by passing FrameworkPropertyMetadataOptions.Inherits to DependencyProperty.Register.)
* There may be other higher-priority sources setting the property value, as explained in the next section.
In this case, the latter reason is to blame. A few controls such as StatusBar, Menu, and ToolTip internally set their font properties to match current system settings. This way, users get the familiar experience of controlling their font via Control Panel. The result can be confusing, however, because such controls end up "swallowing" any inheritance from proceeding further down the element tree.