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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR
"...I can't resist.Are there repeated quotes and bold words in this "text" you speak of...?"
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There are, but no Smilies appear in the book.
I had the
new "
Word 97" in that laptop, which had
SUPER features. Including the ability to insert long phrases automatically: For example, I'd
hate to keep typing this
same phrase (which had to be
used over and over).
Quote:
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"...as manufactured in the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and The Peoples Republic of China..."
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That Word-97 software "remembered" many such phrases, and made writing almost fun.
My book,
The Matrix, was published two years before the movie came out with the same name. Before the movie totally changed the word, "a matrix" was just "a chart". There is also the occasional reference to "Star Trek" in this otherwise very serious laboratory book.
My employer thought so much of it that he paid to publish the first 600 copies, which were sent, cost-free, to laboratories around the world. The subject matter is as dry as powder, however, and is
not for everybody.
(But the winner
will be able to figure out the link to "Miami CSI").
(Not too many
bold and
Italics in the book, but it's just too much fun on this Forum. ('Cuz it can easily be done from the
keyboard using "
Ctrl+B", "
Ctrl+U" or "
Ctrl+I").
Such additions tend to slow the reader however, and when on the Internet—combined with my remote
punmanship style—sometimes has me wondering, "What was I thinking when I typed that?"
Sometimes I manage to figure it out, and blame those lapses on caffeine.
