Welcome!

Welcome to my web site! Its purpose is to discuss topics of interest to me that I wish to share with others.¹ At the present time, most of its content is devoted to Cape Breton Island, a scenically gorgeous place populated by wonderful, friendly people who love to share their vibrant living heritage of Scottish traditional music and dance, maintained by its many world-class performers. This site is not for a business nor will you find any commercial advertisements here: it is a means for me to give something back to Cape Bretoners for all of the richness and joy they have brought into my life. Much of the rest of the site is given over to concerts in the Maritimes and the Northeast, mostly of traditional Scottish music. Eventually, I hope to get around to other subjects, including the North Country where I grew up, but my passion for Cape Breton and its music keeps getting in the way…

Even though this web site² is now fifteen years old and holds more than five gigabytes of photos and information, there is still much I wish to add. Nevertheless, I hope you will find the considerable amount of information that is already here as useful as others have said they have. I continue to work on the site as time and other projects allow and to update it fairly often with new information and photos, so it is continually expanding. Enjoy your visit and come back often!

If you have visited this site before, use the navigational aids at the top of this page to proceed to your topic of interest. If, however, this is your first time here, you should read this entire page before proceeding. A lady I recently met, after throwing up her hands upon seeing all the words on this page, told me she did not know how to use my site. If you cannot invest a few minutes learning how to use it, this site is probably not for you. At the very least, read the Web Page Organization section to understand the useful navigational browsing aids provided.

¹ This site is not a blog, which is defined here as “a web log: a website containing short articles called posts that are changed regularly”. Nor is my site a diary; its text does not change regularly, i.e., periodically at regular intervals; nor does it attempt to provide or interact with the latest news. It does reflect my personal experiences and opinions and is updated often. Once my posts appear on the site, they do not normally change (unless errors are detected) and they remain permanently on the site. As of 2013, I do collect my daily Facebook posts chronicling my Cape Breton trips, which in the aggregate do form a diary, but the web site is not updated daily with these Facebook posts, but only once after I return home.↩

² Since its creation in 2006, this web site had been hosted using Apple’s MobileMe service at http://homepage.mac.com/vicmf. Because, effective 2012 June 30, Apple chose to terminate its MobileMe service, I had to move it to a new web address: https://vmfaubert.com. All of the old site’s content has now been transferred here; much of it has been brought up to date and converted to HTML5, including all of the photo essays, which now have the much larger photos that appeared originally only in the most recent essays. Most of the reviews of Northeast music events before 2012 and of Cape Breton concerts and festivals prior to 2011 remain in the old format, but I will continue working on the conversion to the new format as time allows.↩

Current search engines, such as those provided by DuckDuckGo, Google, Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex, all allow searching a specific web site for content by specifying the site keyword in the search terms, usually at the beginning. Thus, to find something on this web site, enter

site:vmfaubert.com

followed by the search terms of interest. For example, to search for references to “Red Cape” on this web site, you would enter

site:vmfaubert.com Red Cape

in the search engine’s search box. For browsers that support using the address bar for searching, such as Safari, you can enter the information directly in the address bar without first accessing the search engine’s site. When you specify the site keyword, the search results returned are only for that site which follows the colon. If you know what you are looking for is on this site, that can save getting a lot of advertising and irrelevant items in the search results.

This web site contains links to relevant external sites which are, of course, not under my control; such links are flagged by the black-diamond-with-white-x symbol ❖ (at least in standards-compliant browsers with the appropriate Unicode support — see the Fonts section if your browser does not display this symbol properly) while links to locations within my web site are not so flagged. At the time of writing, the external sites contained the information described in the text containing the link; however, since the Internet is dynamic, the sites referenced by such links may disappear or be reörganized, thereby causing the links to stop working, or, worse, be “hijacked” to contain totally different content without my being aware that this has happened. Please notify me of any external links which have become invalid in such ways so that they may be replaced or removed.

Names of Cape Breton localities and its geographical features are taken from the The Nova Scotia Atlas, which has been compiled from the Natural Resources Canada topographical maps and with which it is therefore almost always in agreement, though the topographical maps, with their much greater detail, often supply names not found in the atlas. Unfortunately, these sources frequently do not name many a geographical feature; in such a case, I use the local name when I am aware of it and, when I know of none, one of my own invention, which is always enclosed in double quote marks. Thus, Glencoe is an established locality name, but “Mount Glencoe” is my made-up name for the highest point on the Glencoe Road. Likewise, Meat Cove is an established place name, but “Western Wall” is a name of my creation which denotes the mountainous ridge that rises above the western side of the valley of the Meat Cove Brook.

Road names are not usually indicated in the atlas or topographical maps either; I use the local name when I know of it and otherwise use the name given by Google Maps or by the Nova Scotia Backroad Mapbook or by the GPS map in my Prius faute de mieux. The highway department signage not infrequently is at variance with local usage and civic addresses likewise sometimes differ, e.g., the road officially known as the Little Mabou Road is locally known as the Colindale Road on its southern and western portion and as the West Mabou Road on its northern and eastern portion. In such cases, I follow the local usage and not the official one.

I’m not a professional photographer¹ and I’m frankly amazed that my photos have turned out as well as they have, given my inexperience and lack of extensive photographic knowledge—it’s indeed a tribute to those who built the cameras:

• an Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 80 (film point-and-shoot) [all photos prior to 2004 December 12]; the photos with this camera have an aspect ratio (length to width) of 4:3
• an Olympus D-540 Zoom (digital point-and-shoot) [all photos after 2004 December 12 and up to the summer of 2008]; photos with this camera also have an aspect ratio of 4:3
• a Nikon D40 (digital SLR) [nearly all photos from the fall of 2008 prior to 2012 July 19 and many photos after 2012 July 19]; photos with this camera have an aspect ratio of 3:2
• a Nikon D5100 (digital SLR) [most photos since 2012 July 19]; photos with this camera have an aspect ratio of 3:2

The Nikon D40 works much better at night than either Olympus did and the Nikon D5100 works even better still than the Nikon D40, especially when using the SB-400 Speedlight external flash I acquired for it. I was sometimes unable to convince the Nikon D40 to do as good a job with scenery and landscape photos as the digital Olympus; it often, for example, failed miserably in rendering greens properly, making them far more faded than they appear to my eye. Nevertheless, over the four years I used the Nikon D40 (nearly exclusively), I got happier with it, having learned how to better compensate for many of its failings, both on the camera before shooting and in the post-shoot photo editing software (originally iPhoto and now Aperture) that is frequently necessary to clean up a digital SLR’s photos. Those taken since I acquired the Nikkor 18-105mm lens in the spring of 2009 also have much better detail than those before and are now competitive with those taken with the second Olympus. So far, I find the Nikon D5100, which uses the same Nikkor 18-105mm lens, significantly better than the Nikon D40 at properly rendering scenery and landscape photos. Before my 2013 Celtic Colours trip, I also acquired a Nikkor 70-300mm lens (“Big Bertha”); on that trip, I found I frequently had to switch between the two lenses, as 70mm didn’t work for the wide-angled shots I wanted to capture and 105mm didn’t get the long views I wanted. In ensuing years, I have used both the D40 and the D5100, allowing me to switch between the 18-105mm and 70-300mm lenses without having to physically swap them out of the camera, a practice that is prone to introducing dirt into the interior of the camera.

In addition to the Nikon cameras I am currently using, I have begun taking more and more photos with my iPhones, first an iPhone6s Plus, then an iPhone7 Plus, next an iPhone XS Max, and now an iPhone 11 Pro Max. The photo quality of the iPhones has improved dramatically over the years to the point of now competing very well with the Nikons under normal lighting; in low light situations, the iPhone 11 Pro Max is now far superior to the Nikons. Photos with these cameras have a 4:3 aspect ratio.

As discussed below in Window Size, JPEG compression (which preserves an amazing amount of detail considering the amount of data it removes) has been applied to nearly all of the photos on this site so that neither dimension exceeds 900 pixels: the originals are much larger (3696 × 2448 pixels for those taken with the D5100, 2256 × 1496 pixels for those shot with the Nikon D40, 1600 × 1200 pixels for those taken with either Olympus, and nearly all of them taken with the “medium” image size and “fine” quality settings on all four cameras; the iPhone photos are 4032 × 3024 pixels). Until very recently, I have normally not shot using the cameras’ RAW formats: they consume much more disk space and the JPEG’s the cameras produce have been entirely satisfactory for use on this web site; however, a few of the old photos and some of the more recent photos were shot using RAW.

Unless otherwise noted directly below the photo, I took each photograph on this web site and I hold the copyright to it. Photography is a hobby for me, not a business, and I do not offer my photographs for sale. I do, however, make them freely available to others for non-commerical use (e.g., adding Cape Breton scenes to a web site) or for commercial use in a cultural context (e.g., for use in the packaging or liner notes of a CD or illustrating a book or magazine article). For such purposes, you probably want to start with the originals and not the reduced versions. If you contact me with your usage scenario, I will be delighted to make the originals available to you at no cost; all I ask in return is that you place the notice “© Victor Maurice Faubert” beside each photo I supplied for your use. As for the photos credited to other photographers, which have been used here with their express permission and to which they retain the copyright and distribution rights, you will need to address your requests for their use directly to them; if you lack such a photographer’s e-mail address, contact me and I will forward your e-mail to that photographer.

¹ I would be remiss if I did not thank my family for resuscitating my interest in photography: until they gave me the first Olympus camera as a Christmas gift, I hadn’t taken a photo since the mid 1960’s—I found the fiddling necessary with a light meter and 35mm film camera far too distracting to allow me to enjoy what I was looking at. After I discovered how much cameras had improved, my family also gave me the second Olympus to cut down on the expense and problems introduced by film processing, which were disastrous for the photos I took in 2004. After I destroyed the D-540 Zoom they gave me by an unexpected dip in the water off the Little Narrows dock, I purchased a second one, identical to the first, which served me well until I bought the Nikon D40 in 2008.↩

While I generally belong to the descriptivist (rather than the prescriptivist) school of thought in matters of language, if we as users of the English language are unable to systematically simplify and improve the way we spell and write it, as we so manifestly are, I generally prefer retaining historical niceties to the simplifications of recent usage. So, for as long as I have been writing English, I have preferred spelling behaviour to behavior, travelled to traveled, judgement to judgment, catalogue to catalog, and the like; these spellings were usual in the North Country where I grew up and are still regularly seen throughout New England. I do, when writing in US English, generally use center (and ‑er rather than ‑re, except in theatre, where I exceptionally use ‑re), plow, color, license, jail, and the like, so there are nevertheless considerable traces of Noah Webster’s reforms in my US English spelling. However, like The New Yorker, I use diacritics and ligatures freely, so you will see façade, naïve, coöperate, rôle, reöpen, reäction, lacunæ, and the like here. I strenuously dislike seeing the vowel collisions in reaction and cooperate, where (unlike ready and [chicken] coop, say) the vowels are in two distinct syllables, and I much prefer the diacritic to the hyphen as a way of separating them.

When writing of Cape Breton or for a Canadian audience, however, I adopt the variants used in Maritime Canada; thus, you will see centre, colour, licence, learnt, and the like in those areas of my web site, where I am generally guided by the Canadian English spell checker (which tends to be a bit more British than actual Maritime usage). I have been told that plough is not in regular use in the Maritimes, which is borne out by the spelling in The Inverness Oran, so, even though the Canadian spell checker objects to plow, I have overridden it to accept Noah’s innovation.

The suffix ‑ise/‑ize is particularly vexing; for some words, even in US English, ‑ise is mandatory (e.g., televise, compromise, etc.), reflecting the strong influence its French heritage retains in English spelling; in other cases, ‑ize is required (e.g., capsize, prize). In British English usage, when there is a choice, the Oxford spelling, used by the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and the publications of the Oxford University Press, systematically spells ‑ize, as the US spelling does, but the Cambridge spelling in ‑ise seems to have won the day in Britain and the former British empire and has even been adopted by the European Union for its English publications. Both variants are found in Canada, with the ‑ize variant considerably more common, so that is what I have used here. For more on this subject (and on English spelling variants generally), see the excellent Wikipedia article American and British English Spelling Differences; for more on Canadian spelling, see the Wikipedia article Canadian English.

I write French place names as they appear in standard French; thus I write Grand-Étang, rather than the anglicised Grand Etang that appears on local road signs. Newpapers in France tend to drop the accents from capital letters, but the standard usage¹ is to retain them, as Canadian newspapers written in French usually do.

I, along with a few other hardy idiosyncratic American individualists, sin against the punctuation rule that dictates that punctuation marks appear inside quotes at the end of a sentence or clause (this rule is much less vehemently enforced in Britain); I instead place a punctuation mark inside quotes only when it is actually part of the quoted material—that’s what the quotes mean, right? In most other respects, my punctuation follows current norms, except that I insist on a comma before and and or in lists and use the comma, as I was taught, far more liberally than seems to be the contemporary practice—given my syntactically complicated sentences, commas are a requirement if the reader is to follow along!

Abbreviations formed of the first and last letters of a word, such as St, Mr, Dr, and the like, are intentionally written without periods.

Most of the spelling and punctuation “errors” you see are therefore idiosyncrasies that I do not consider to be errors. However, occasionally, an inadvertent mistake does slip into one of the web pages due to a moment of inattention. If you should see such an error (i.e., one not covered by the points above), please use the feedback address at the bottom of this page (and every page in this web site) to report the problem to me and I will promptly correct it.

¹ §86, a; §101, N.B.: in Le bon usage, 13^th revised edition, by Maurice Grevisse and recast (refondue) by André Goosse, Éditions Duculot, Paris, 4th printing, 1997 [ISBN 2-8011-1045-0].↩

The current single-column format I have adopted for this web site uses two different colour schemes to distinguish the page’s main content from its ancillary information:

• Dark green text on an off-white background (green and white are the primary colours on Cape Breton’s flag), such as that you are now reading, identifies the primary content of the page. (In the former layout, blue text on a pale yellow background was used for the right column, which also held the main content of the page.)
• Teal text on a pale green background, such as you now find at the top and bottom of each page, denotes navigation controls and administrative information. (In the former layout, teal text on a pale blue background was used for the left column, which held the same content.) The two areas so coloured are described in more detail in the following paragraphs.

The pale green background at the very top of each page holds the navigation block, which is intended to make it easy for you to move around this web site. Two horizontal rules subdivide it into three distinct lists of links:

• The page location list lies above the upper horizontal rule; it specifies the current page’s location within this web site’s organizational hierarchy; it is given by a sequence of one or more bold-faced links (to better distinguish them from links in the other two lists), with one link for each level of that hierarchy:
  • The first (leftmost) link is always to this home page, “Vic’s Web Site”, which is at the apex of the hierarchy. Clicking on this link will always take you to this home page (or cause your browser to reload it if you are already viewing it).
  • The last (rightmost) link is always to the current page, i.e., the page you are currently reading. Clicking on this link will have no effect on your position in the hierarchy of web pages, but it will cause your browser to reload the current page.
  • Links between the first and last, if any, show the page’s place in the hierarchy between the home page and the current page. Clicking on any of these links will take you “up” in that hierarchy, i.e., towards the apex and to a topic more general than that of the current page but less general than that of the home page.
  On very small screens, and on larger ones when when you are at a page well down in the hierarchy, it may be the case that the page location list is split across lines. In such a case, just read the links from left to right as if they were all on the same line: every link above the upper horizontal rule in the navigation block belongs to the page’s location list, even when the links are not all on the same line.
• The current page topics list lies between the two horizontal rules; its links, which appear in regular face, are to the topics discussed on the current page. Each of these links takes you directly to the specified topic without the need to scroll down to it. Because all of these links are to targets on the current page, they do not move you elsewhere in the web site’s organizational hierarchy — they just move you to the selected topic on the current page. As a consequence, none of the information in the navigation block changes when you click a current page topics link.
• The subordinate topics list lies below the lower horizontal rule; each of its links, which also appears in regular face, is to a web page immediately below the current page in this web site’s organizational hierarchy and presents a subject that is related to, but more specific and restricted than, the more general subject on the current page. For instance, “Cape Breton” is one of the subordinate topics on this home page; clicking that link takes you to a web page devoted to Cape Breton Island, a more specific topic than the subject of this home page, which deals with the web site as a whole. When you visit that page, you will be on an intermediate web page whose subordinate topics are all related to Cape Breton. If you click on one of those subordinate topics, the page you reach will be devoted to a yet more specific aspect of Cape Breton, e.g., Hiking Information. If you click on one of that page’s subordinate topics, you will reach a web page that provides yet more subordinate topics, all related to hiking in Cape Breton, but each more specialized than the page above it in the hierarchy. If you continue descending the web site’s organizational hierarchy in this fashion, you will eventually reach the bottomost page, where the subordinate topics area will contain no links, but only a “tack” symbol (⊥) to signal that you can not descend further in the hierarchy.

Since the page you are currently reading is the home page, the page location list has only a single link; however, as you descend the hierarchy, the page location list at the top of the page will expand to show additional links giving the route you used to reach each page you visit. You may ascend back up the hierarchy by clicking one of the page location links, which will return you to the corresponding level in the hierarchy.

Subordinate topic links in red, rather than teal, are place-holders for topics I currently propose to eventually discuss (and I may add others in the future); however, the web pages for those topics do not yet exist and clicking on such a place-holder link will just take you to a place-holder page. In other words, only the links in teal actually lead to useful information. The red place holder links will be changed to teal over time as I add pages for the corresponding information to the site.

Some topics, such as photo essays, performance descriptions, or trip posts, are sequential in nature, rather than hierarchical. Such topics are split across several web pages all logically at the base of the hierarchy. In such a case, instead of a tack, the subordinate topics list will contain small labelled icons to allow you to move sequentially forward and backward through the sequence, to move to the start or end of the sequence, or (when available) to move to an index page that allows you to reach any one of the pages in the sequence directly.

The pale green background at the very bottom of each page holds the footer, a collection of mostly administrative information relating to the web page. It consists of the following elements:

• for your convenience, the subordinate topics list of the navigation block is repeated here, but only when this page is part of a sequential sequence of web pages all logically at the base of the hierarchy
• a “Top of Page” link, which returns you to the navigation block at the top of the current page
• a photo and memorial dedication or a seasonal greeting, depending on the time of the year (this element is present only on this home page)
• a final line specifying:
  • the page’s copyright notice
  • the date the most recent update to the page was made
  • the page’s HTML5 validation status, and
  • a clickable link you can use to send me any feedback on the page you might care to share

The size of a window is, of course, constrained by the size of the screen on which it is drawn. I have attempted to design the pages on this site using a “liquid layout” that should adapt reasonably well to many different window sizes. These days, a 13" Apple laptop has a screen size of 1280×800 pixels; even smaller screens are still in use, but nearly all of those are capable of supporting windows 1024 pixels wide. I have therefore, in this rewrite, resized photos in landscape orientation to 900 pixels wide (up from the previous 630 pixels wide), which should considerably improve their sharpness and detail from the previous versions. However, if you decrease the width of your browser’s window much below 1024 pixels for pages containing such photos, you should expect to have to scroll horizontally to view the entire photo.

Larger photos with less compression inevitably mean slower download times. Given the widespread availability of broadband connections, I trust this will not be much of a problem for you.

For my personal viewing, both of this site and others, I set my browser window to roughly 1100 pixels wide and the full length of the screen (or most of it), yielding a browser window of about 1100×1300 pixels on my current display (a 27" iMac with an even more impressive display than the 22" Apple Cinema Display™ I happily used for ten years and with an astounding resolution of 2560×1440 pixels, an incredible gain in screen real estate). This is also the size at which I develop these web pages and judge their æsthetics.

However, I also ensure that I test each page against a minimum window size of 1024×550 pixels; while these pages will not look their best in such a reduced window, they should still appear reasonably well, though some vertically oriented photos will require scrolling in so short a window. Moreover, I also test these pages on my iPhone11 Pro Max running the latest version of iOS 14, which has a screen size of 2688×1242 pixels; it renders those pages very well, though it does occasionally break captions at spots the desktop browsers do not.

I do not restrict the characters I use on this web site to a small set and instead draw as appropriate from numerous segments of the huge Unicode repertoire, which is well-supported on current operating systems. Because it provides a larger subset of Unicode characters than is available in most other fonts and because it is very highly readable on the screen, I have formatted this web site using the gorgeous Gentium Plus font, which is available free of charge for all current platforms by following the “Downloads” link on this SIL web page.

For most of my site, the Gentium font is not strictly necessary, but pronunciations and those areas which are language-oriented will most likely not display properly without it or some equally capable Unicode font that supports the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) character repertoire. If you see question marks or black boxes or outlined boxes in places they do not belong (and particularly if external links, such as the one at the end of the preceding paragraph, are preceded by such a “missing character” indicator), you do not have the minumum Unicode support to view this site correctly. The most likely solution to this problem is to install the Gentium font for your operating system.

As of Release 6, the Gentium Plus font now includes eight fonts in four weights, providing full support for bold and italic text and rendering the use of Gentium Basic and Gentium Book Basic fonts no longer necessary. If you have not already installed Release 6, you should do so at your earliest convenience.

HTML5 is a relatively recent web standard that is today sufficiently mature that most standards-based browsers already support that small subset I use here; the significant exceptions are all of the released versions of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer before Internet Explorer 9 (Internet Explorer 9, which requires Windows 7 or Windows Vista, is said to include excellent HTML5 support and Internet Explorer 10, which was released in 2012 and requires Windows 7 or later, is said to have even fuller support).

With the notable exception of the photo essays (which I built for a different environment and only archived on my site), the previous version of this web site used XHTML 1.0 Strict in a two-column format with contrasting colours, with navigation and administrative information in the left column and the actual text in the right column. As I realized only some time later, this format reduced by 25% the screen area in which to display photos in landscape orientation, many of which lost significant detail when they were compressed to fit in the available space. This format also somewhat complicated this web site’s use on smaller screens, such as those on mobile devices. Finally, in 2010, all further standards work on XHTML, long moribund, was officially terminated: once the “wave of the future”, but which Internet Explorer never properly supported and which was implemented with annoying quirks in other browsers, it is now a dead end. Its replacement, HTML5, is much more capable and significantly more precisely defined; nearly all contemporary browsers now support it. That should make it much easier to build web pages that are consistently rendered across browsers conforming to the standard.

In late 2010, I decided to transform this site’s layout to its present form in order to remove or reduce these problems, hopefully without introducing others, and, at the same time, to convert it (including the photo essays) to HTML5. Consequently, a browser that supports the subset of HTML5 used on this site is required for its pages to be readably displayed as I intend; other browsers will likely mangle the pages on this web site. I develop this site using BBEdit (12) and Safari (12) running on Mac OS X (Sierra (12.6)), but I also test a subset of its pages using the latest versions of the Firefox (81), Chromium (85), Google Chrome (85), Opera (71), and Vivaldi (3.3) browsers; I also test against my iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 14. I do not have access to a Windows machine (real or virtual) on which to test, but since these browsers all support the parts of HTML5 I use on this site, I expect that they will display there just as they do on my Mac. If your browser does not display this page as described here, I recommend that you install the free Firefox browser (which contains the requisite support on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows), the free Safari browser (which contains the requisite support on Mac OS X and Windows), or some other HTML5-savvy browser.

The Safari browser for early versions of iOS (at least up through iOS 4.2.1) apparently had some kind of a fixed memory limit that precludes it from displaying more than a fixed amount of photo data on a given HTML page. This limit is reached on some of the pages in this site, so pages with more than six 900-pixel photos will display only the first five photos and show question marks for the rest, although, for reasons unknown, a page with exactly six 900-pixel photos will display all six. For photos of other pixel sizes, the limit may be reached at other points, more generous for smaller pixel photos and less generous for larger pixel photos. My cousin confirmed that the same problem occurred on his iPad. This limitation appears to have been lifted (or made much more generous) in more recent iOS versions—the photos on all of my web pages I have tested are shown in iOS 7 and later. The later photo essays and many of the St Anns concerts do have more than six 900-pixel photos on some pages and I have decided to leave them as they are; for such pages, you will need to use either a newer version of iOS or a desktop browser.

I would note that the reading experience on the iPhone 5 (and likely other iOS devices) is considerably improved by using Mobile Safari’s “Reader View”, accessed by tapping the three-full-line-and-part-of-a-fourth-line icon at the left of the address bar. The two letter A’s that then appear allow you to control the font size, making the text much easier to read. Next winter, I will take a look at other improvements to the HTML and CSS for mobile device browsers, the underpinnings of which are beginning to be implemented.

If you are already using a standards-conforming browser and you notice an anomaly in the web page rendering, please use the feedback address at the bottom of this page (and every page in this web site) to report the problem to me; include:

• the browser you are using and its version number,
• the operating system on which you are running and its version number,
• the URL of the mis-rendered page from the address bar of your browser, and
• a clear description of the problem you see.

If you can create one on your system, a screen shot of the misrendered page would also be extremely useful (for Mac OS X, a screen shot can be taken by using the command-shift-3 key combination). I will attempt to correct the reported problem promptly.

While converting each page to HTML5, I also expect to recheck it and to revise and update its contents as necessary, looking for broken links and fixing any found, and incorporating knowledge I have acquired since the page was originally written. Because this is a fairly significant undertaking that has not yet been completed in 2019, the site will appear somewhat schizophrenic until the conversion is finished, with both the old and new formats intermingling unhappily. Please bear with me as I continue to work through this conversion.