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by seasoned_geek
Sun Jun 29, 2025 10:03 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Odd/Even page headers and footers
Replies: 1
Views: 14898

Odd/Even page headers and footers

I know. Everyone is going to say "create a custom page format/layout for odd and even pages", but that's a royal PITA when all you want is a page number on the outside corner. Yes, I've had to do it when I had running page headers listing the chapter title in other books, but its a lot of ...
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 27, 2025 11:14 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

True. But that's not the issue here. The problem is when you treat an early draft as a final draft that you as if was ready for the printers. For instance: If you have a text-box where you can fit 500 words, then your editor add 4 more, you would have to make the text box bigger. Then this will dis...
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:55 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

If you have afile that takes 45 minutes to load and is just text with some images, this says a lot. You probably are using the wrong tool for the job. There is a reason why word processors for writers exists. This applications, internally, split chapters into files to avoid this kind of issues and ...
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:41 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Proprietary File Enhancement
Replies: 2
Views: 3699

Re: Proprietary File Enhancement

The paid version of TextMaker does both. In the FreeOffice version, font embedding is possible when exporting to PDF but not in the TextMaker file itself. Both the paid version and the FreeOffice version allow section breaks. Thanks for the response, section breaks not really what I'm talking about.
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:39 pm
Forum: TextMaker 2021 for Windows
Topic: Textmaker 2021 on Windows 11 doesn't find user fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 17622

Re: Textmaker 2021 on Windows 11 doesn't find user fonts

How is this a TextMaker problem? Well, speaking as a software developer with 4 decades in the field, on the home-hobby computer platforms like x86 and Windows, when a user installs fonts for just that user, all applications that user launches are supposed to look for them. The directory path is wel...
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 27, 2025 10:19 pm
Forum: TextMaker 2021 for Windows
Topic: Change Tracking hangs
Replies: 5
Views: 41441

Re: Change Tracking hangs

It was sent
by seasoned_geek
Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:11 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

The reference to CMOS 13.37 is to the section of the CMOS, not the edition. I'm 81 years old. I graduated from high school in 1962. The current CMOS/AP way is what I was taught in high school. It doesn't get much more archaic than that. I went to a poor school. In 4th grade we still had "scien...
by seasoned_geek
Wed Jun 18, 2025 12:02 pm
Forum: TextMaker 2021 for Windows
Topic: Change Tracking hangs
Replies: 5
Views: 41441

Re: Change Tracking hangs

Thank you for reporting this issue. Are you getting this problem with a specific file or with all the files? Please share the sample problematic file so that we can check it at our end. If your file is private, please send it to forum[at]softmaker.com with the link of this post. I'm only working on...
by seasoned_geek
Tue Jun 17, 2025 3:35 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

When I started writing books this was mandatory. He said "blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah." "And another thing blah blah blah blah blah." Assuming this is all the same speaker, this was never correct (in American English). Each new paragraph should begin w...
by seasoned_geek
Sun Jun 15, 2025 2:33 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

For basic editing of novels and similar books, Strunk & White's The Elements of Style would suffice as the only editorial guide needed. For reasons lost in the mists of time, I have three copies of it on my desktop reference shelf -- all 3rd edition. Perhaps, but I'm old. I'm wanting software t...
by seasoned_geek
Sun Jun 15, 2025 2:17 pm
Forum: TextMaker 2021 for Windows
Topic: Textmaker 2021 on Windows 11 doesn't find user fonts
Replies: 2
Views: 17622

Textmaker 2021 on Windows 11 doesn't find user fonts

It's probably all versions of Windows, maybe just 11. I don't have physical access to the machine, but it appears they installed Liberation fonts as a user instead of System and she gets Microsoft's gloriously bad font substitutions. https://www.1001fonts.com/search.html?search=liberation Mono Regul...
by seasoned_geek
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:39 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Proprietary File Enhancement
Replies: 2
Views: 3699

Proprietary File Enhancement

TextMaker can make a huge leap if they expand their proprietary file format to: allow embedding of fonts create multiple document sections Read this blog post and this LibreOffice bug that has been open since January 2011. You would not believe just how many of us keep Lotus WordPro around and use i...
by seasoned_geek
Sat Jun 14, 2025 7:15 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

LibreOffice is a train wreck that got hit by a plane crash and is rolling downhill towards a daycare center at noon play. I wouldn't have worded it quite that strongly ... but I can't disagree. In many ways, it's proof of the adage that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee. I would. ...
by seasoned_geek
Fri Jun 13, 2025 12:04 am
Forum: TextMaker 2021 for Windows
Topic: Change Tracking hangs
Replies: 5
Views: 41441

Change Tracking hangs

Noticed this on Windows 10 with professional TextMaker 2021. I'm reviewing changes from an editor. If I have to pull open a browser, or look at an email because someone called, etc. causing TextMaker to not be the top level full screen window for 5-10 minutes, it's hung when I get back to it. I can ...
by seasoned_geek
Thu Jun 12, 2025 11:49 pm
Forum: Water Cooler
Topic: Editing Services
Replies: 23
Views: 243232

Re: Editing Services

4. LibreOffice compatibility with MS Office is okeyish, SoftMaker beats it on that regard. Where LO excels is when it comes to ODT, witch is a true ISO standard format. SMO's support of the ODT is mediocre at best, and it is puzzling since is the mandatory office document format in the EU. I know, ...

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