[Nottingham] Text terminal working

[Daryl]

This is very relevant. I’ve been working with the corporate Word template all day trying to put together a requirements document. 

The pain I’ve had with multi-level numbering and contents is unreal. Once the template is messed up it’s so difficult to undo the damage. So I’ve spent time messing with formatting and I am now even more behind with the actual content.

BTW - I used Acornsoft View back in the day for coding as well as documents. In fact I still have it on the BBC Master 128! I vividly remember Mode 0 through a regular TV causing me headaches unless I turned the colour totally off when typing text.
 
> On 18 May 2016, at 15:36, Jason Irwin via Nottingham <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 18/05/16 14:12, Michael Simms via Nottingham wrote:
>> As someone who has actually written and published things (I don't know
>> how many others here have), I couldn't agree less.
> This sounds like another great talk topic. Or playground fight.
> I'm not actually sure which would be more entertaining. :-P
> 
> Probably one of those things where there is no universal answer.
> 
> I used to use Acornsoft View back in the day, then WordPefect (which I much preferred). Bash the content in and periodically check you set titles etc correctly. With WYSIWYG I have noticed that I worry about the layout long before I've got the actual content down. Which is a bit counter-productive as you keep having to twiddle the layout as content changes; thus wasting time.
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> I'm doing a lot more in markdown these days. About 3 flavours of it. With conflicting syntax. I'm sure there's an XKCD about that....
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