I hate, hate, hate the new feature in the newest version of Word that puts an extra space between paragraphs. You can turn it off but you have to do it in every document, and it's so, so wrong.
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Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
Amy - Oct 04, 2009 1:23:34 pm PDT #360 of 3094
Because books.
Zenkitty - Oct 04, 2009 1:23:50 pm PDT #361 of 3094
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Kevin, really... you cannot leave us with no more of the story than that!
omnis_audis - Oct 04, 2009 1:24:22 pm PDT #362 of 3094
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Kevin, you tease!! Tell us more!!!
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:24:25 pm PDT #363 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
I hate, hate, hate the new feature in the newest version of Word that puts an extra space between paragraphs. You can turn it off but you have to do it in every document, and it's so, so wrong.
Oooh, I hate that too, but I set a custom template for my Word docs, so I rarely have to deal with it.
megan walker - Oct 04, 2009 1:25:31 pm PDT #364 of 3094
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Is that why new manuscript I get has 10pt added after?
Also, when did they decide that margins should be 1.25 inches? 1 inch was already plenty.
I basically have a checklist of formatting things I now have to do to all new manuscript. Annoying.
victor infante - Oct 04, 2009 1:27:14 pm PDT #365 of 3094
To understand what happened at the diner, we shall use Mr. Papaya! This is upsetting because he's the friendliest of fruits.
Adventures in great juxtaposition:
Hello, I'm Kevin (how did you guess?), and I currently live in Liverpool in the UK.
followed by:
You can also do a find and replace, which is how I just fixed the current MS. Let's see if it sticks.
Equals now trying to "find and erase" the prime minister. I can think of a few politicians I'd like to try that on ...
Mala - Oct 04, 2009 1:31:05 pm PDT #366 of 3094
I have to stop myself from reformatting other people's comments in code to remove the extra spaces. It's just not done, but if I were in charge it would be.
Steph L. - Oct 04, 2009 1:34:17 pm PDT #367 of 3094
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I was trained in two spaces in grad school and have stood firmly by the habit, but lately, I've been hearing mutterings of it being as outdated as organdy aprons.
Only lately?
Oh my good god, NO. This is a leftover from typewriters, babe. NO need for it now. I take out all those extra spaces, every manuscript I edit, and grumble about it the whole time.
This. Two spaces after a period is of the devil, and although we have a macro to take care of it, we still mutter imprecations.
Barb - Oct 04, 2009 1:41:06 pm PDT #368 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Only lately?
Really, only lately. At least, none of my editors ever seemed to care one way or the other. Where I've begun hearing the grumblings are for editors for e-publishers.
ehab - Oct 04, 2009 1:41:35 pm PDT #369 of 3094
...all my words have been taken by my work. - Mala
I guess the two spaces thing dates me as I learned to type on a typewriter and have never successfully broken the habit of two spaces; I now live in fear of posting more than a sentence here, expect poorly punctuated run on sentences henceforth.