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Friday, March 07, 2003 I Hate Footnotes Damnit, do they suck. I'm setting a book today that a triple-threat (or should I color-code that? Sepia? Mauve?). High number of figs, footnotes and equations. Equations alone totally suck-ass because balancing the pages after placing art makes flushing out the extra space somewhat difficult. Then, on top of that, I keep forgetting to set the footnotes. So, I've got 10 or 12 pages set, balanced and looking sweet then -BAM!- I spy, with my little eye, a subscript number 8. Damnit! Flip back and see that the last footnote I set was No. 5. So I've got to go back to No. 5 and start a Search-and-Rescue mission starting with No. 6. And that's just blows out my nice, sweet, well-balanced pages. Ventura is so flunky when it comes to automatic footnotes, especially if you've got math. Man, does it ever hate math. Writing out files cause this puppy to crash and burn. And that can hose a whole day's work if you're not careful. So it's much better to manually input footnotes when you've got so much going on. But when you screw up, it's a royal bitch to have to go back and start over. Needless to say--but I'm gonna anyway--this is all labor intensive. I'm still stuck in Chapter 01 of this book and I've been hacking at it all day. Back and forth. The art blows and some of it won't import correctly, but that's a part I'm just glossing over at this point. It's just one of those projects where nobody's getting out alive. posted by Evil Wayne | 5:36 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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