Posted in technology, writing on Aug 18th, 2008
Word processor: job number one = display text clearly on screen.
Word 2007: fail.
Is that two spaces to the left of the dash, one to the right? One space left, no spaces right?
In fact, it’s a space on each side:
But of course.
Is it me? Is it Calibri? Has anyone found a way to fix it so [...]
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Posted in internet, technology, writing on Jul 29th, 2008
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Anyone who’s used Word will know that, by default, it replaces bog-standard straight quotes (and here I’d demonstrate what they look like, but our theme will change them to curved ones) with curved ones. It also changes hyphens (-) to en dashes (–).
No big deal, you’d think. After [...]
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