At 12:48 AM 3/31/02 -0500, Rick Pikul wrote:
>At 11:28 PM 3/29/02 -0800, Scrapper BlackDragon wrote:
> >--- Casey Karp <casey_at_mysk.org> wrote:
>
> {Foomph...}
>
> > > Word format is only useful to people who have either
> > > a copy of MS Word,
> >Star Office reads it (so Linux is fine) and there are
> >convertors for the stuff on Mac, so should be good
> >too, though you could use MS office for Mac...
> >*shudders*
> >
> >Generally I'd agree with small stuff leave as text and
> >just put bigger stuff in Word. Allows better text
> >formatting etc, etc, etc,. Whatever makes you hard...
>
> The formatting that things like Word can do and
>pure text can't, are rarely, (if ever), worth doing. Any
>decent word processor will convert all the text location
>based formatting codes to the space, tab and hard return
>equivalent when saving as ASCII.
> If your work isn't worth reading in text, adding
>fancy fonts won't help. The few things that fonts actually
>help with
<Grumblefsckmutter>
can generally be done with the use of various
separation characters, /like this/, >or this<.
> As for big things, go check out some anime
>fanfiction like UF and Twisted Path. Pure text, no
>problems.
--
Phoenix
Received on Sun Mar 31 2002 - 20:42:33 CST