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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Evil Communist Plot
So it seems that the reason my blog is filling up with bizarre hieroglyphs is because of those damn smart quotes and en dashes that programs like Microsoft Word enjoy sprinkling all over the place. Even if I paste Word docs into Notepad, the little buggers remain, and Blogger is violently allergic to them.
Can I please ask, due to Blogger's naffness, that any submissions come with the minimum of formatting? Raw .txt files would be preferred, unless your MS is swarming with italics or Lord B'azzterdd speaks only in Cooper Black, in which case I'll do my best to fix them up.
Can I please ask, due to Blogger's naffness, that any submissions come with the minimum of formatting? Raw .txt files would be preferred, unless your MS is swarming with italics or Lord B'azzterdd speaks only in Cooper Black, in which case I'll do my best to fix them up.
Torgo, 10:04 pm
5 Comments:
Rotten communists! :-)
If we've already sent in a submission, would you like us to resend without the formatting?
Thanks again for all the wonderful things you're doing for authors!
-S
If we've already sent in a submission, would you like us to resend without the formatting?
Thanks again for all the wonderful things you're doing for authors!
-S
No, don't worry about it. Just for the future.
OK, you'll get mine as RTF file.
One of these days, lol. I want to submit an edited version, not a first draft. :)
One of these days, lol. I want to submit an edited version, not a first draft. :)
Here's some reasonably decent instructions on how to convert "smart" quotes to straight quotes.
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/wordprocessingtips/#quotesword
Watching you critique is very interesting. Thanks!
http://www.angelfire.com/wizard/wordprocessingtips/#quotesword
Watching you critique is very interesting. Thanks!
Thanks Resa!
