beware, beware, his floating eyes, his flashing hair

[truepenny]

Word believes that "although" is hyphenated "alt-hough." And due to the UTTER IDIOCY of their quote-unquote "manual" hyphenation feature, you cannot correct it.

Although (ha), even that isn't as bad as what it did to Coleridge. There will be one change in the text of "White Charles," as the only way to prevent Word from hyphenating it "Co-leridge"--drawing a discreet curtain over the interim carnage--was to add in "Samuel Taylor," to get "Coleridge" away from the end of the line.

Comments

[glasshouses.livejournal.com]

Yikes! You can turn all their auto correction "features" off if you want.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I always do.

Except in this instance, when I actually need full justification and, therefore, hyphenation.

[marycatelli]

This is why I don't let Word do any such thing

[nathreee.livejournal.com]

After seeing all this, I think I'll just use Open Office and try to avoid hyphenation. This is depressing. I wish you courage.

[soho-iced.livejournal.com]

This won't count as helpful comment, but I have a sort of superstitious horror of Word: I loathe it so much that I tend to do almost everything in Publisher, even letters (not so good for a long manuscript, of course). No one else seems to use Publisher, which can be tricky, but as a bonus it is very easy to generate pdfs from.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I also find Publisher much less evil than Word, and I used it when I did a Lulu book.

You know when people say eBooks cost nothing and should be cheap? Look how much time this is taking.

[torrilin.livejournal.com]

YES!

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

If I have serious layout to do, it goes into Quark Express, which I got cheap when I was a student (yay educational pricing!).