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« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2004, 11:03:46 pm »
I recently upgraded to Mac OSX and have discovered that the included "TextEdit" replacing SimpleText does not save in .txt like Simpletext did but rather only in .rtf and .doc.
Whatever your feelings about Mac vs. Whatever, something is deeply, deeply wrong when Microsoft proprietary formats dominate the Macintosh.
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« Reply #16 on: May 19, 2004, 07:36:21 am »
try hitting "make plain text" in the format menu.

ontopic: i think it's funny because there is clearly no major program less deserving of a medal of excellence than word. literally all it can do well is a few sentences. anything over about 40 pages and that fucker is sloooooow.

and then it crashes.

yes, i used to work in a university computer lab. BA time was SO. MUCH. FUN.
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« Reply #17 on: May 19, 2004, 01:30:00 pm »
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try hitting "make plain text" in the format menu.


Indeed, I have it set to default to plain text in the preferences.  Text should be text.  Life is complicated enough without extranous markup.
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« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2004, 03:15:03 pm »
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Life is complicated enough without extranous markup.


Unless you're using TextPad for HTML markup by hand. It has some lovely features, as well as being small and fast, it is totally customisable. I just discovered yesterday that I can set a macro up to insert <A TARGET="_blank" HREF=" - thus saving me a little time, given I always use _blank target links.
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« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2004, 05:01:26 pm »
Dammit, Slink!  I don't recognize you any more with your new Av!  I keep thinking, "Who the hell is *that* guy?"  

Ah, well.  I'll have to get used to it, I suppose.
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« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2004, 05:24:38 pm »
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Ah, well.  I'll have to get used to it, I suppose.


I will probably revert. Just felt it was time for a change. I don't think it works though.
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« Reply #21 on: May 19, 2004, 05:57:57 pm »
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Ah, well.  I'll have to get used to it, I suppose.


I will probably revert. Just felt it was time for a change. I don't think it works though.

I like it just fine, but I'll freely admit I miss Ed and Ein. And yes, there was a recognition effect going on.

(It rather worries me that I chose to be associated with a giant evil eye, but such is my idiom, I suppose.)
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« Reply #22 on: May 19, 2004, 06:46:03 pm »
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I like it just fine, but I'll freely admit I miss Ed and Ein. And yes, there was a recognition effect going on.


Yea. The recognition effect weirded me out a bit too. And there are worse things to be recognised at than anime characters in the style of Ralph Steadman.
I had been considering going back to Hunter however. I might try that again soon.
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« Reply #23 on: May 19, 2004, 07:39:42 pm »
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<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="


capitalized tags, and the target attribute?  you are SO not validating under xhtml 1.1 [/geek]
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« Reply #24 on: May 19, 2004, 08:16:14 pm »
Hooray! You people have saved my sanity from having to launch Classic Environment for Simpletext until such time as I started poking around the preferences and such. May many benedictions shower upon your houses!
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« Reply #25 on: May 19, 2004, 08:35:04 pm »
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capitalized tags, and the target attribute?  you are SO not validating under xhtml 1.1 [/geek]


I know, it's a fact that shames me. It's just bad habit, having learnt long, long ago.
I am going to have to go through all my HTML and clean it out, since I need that validation in my life.
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« Reply #26 on: May 19, 2004, 08:40:28 pm »
Hey! Geeks! Look over here!
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« Reply #27 on: May 19, 2004, 09:59:49 pm »
i hope ray and beef are being ironiocal.  because i find it hard to make sentences in MS Word.  it keeps capitalizing things.
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« Reply #28 on: May 19, 2004, 10:51:01 pm »
It always calls me on [Long Sentence: No Suggestions].
Stupid pretentious diction.
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« Reply #29 on: May 20, 2004, 02:46:09 am »
Slink, just for my 2 cents, I kind of enjoyed the other avatar. But the Ralph is cool, of course.
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