Productivity!

[icepixie]

Ways to know you've taken your digestion metaphor too far:"These non-English British people will not go quietly into that good colon."

*headdesk* Yeah, I'll be deleting that before I turn it in. Right now it's going to sit there and amuse me.

(I have roughly fifteen pages done! I say roughly because I'm writing it in single-space, and I've hit the middle of page eight, but I have some set-off quotes that won't be double-spaced once I switch it. And I also have one section on Glendower that's basically a collection of bullet points rather than actual paragraphs, but anyway. Fifteen pages! I think I'll need five to seven more to finish it up, which I should totally be able to do today and tomorrow. WIN.)

Comments

[alto2.livejournal.com]

But this is the one area where Word actually helps you rather than hinders you! Footnotes are easy in Word!

I was actually referring to Word. Unless the footnote features have improved dramatically in the last version or two, they leave QUITE a lot to be desired. I can't tell you the footnote-related nightmares I had to deal with when I was working in tech support at Princeton--stuff to be formatted for journals that just would. not. go no matter what the hell we did. That was the end of me and footnotes, like, ever.

[icepixie]

Huh. They work fine for me--easy to insert, easy to move if you swap text around, easy to delete. Word automatically renumbers whenever something is moved or deleted, which I don't think it used to do maybe six years ago. I'm not trying to do anything fancier with them, though...

[alto2.livejournal.com]

Oh, it renumbered. That was about the only damn thing it did right. Formatting the things was a beast, it would decide to cut off parts of longer footnotes, or the second one on a page, or leave a giant blank space under one so that the whole thing looked like it was done by a complete moron. And there was no way to fix it because you couldn't figure out why the hell it was doing it in the first place. That's why I just say NO.

[icepixie]

How strange. It's always worked perfectly for me over the last five years or so.