Of course, I won't name any names, but authors you'd expect to know better (like, ones with books out and stuff) have only just made the switch to sending me Word files I can use easily with Quark.
You won't believe the lengths I went through to get that floppy to yield its data. I had to bring it to the local public school, where they ran old computers, and convert it that way into an ASCII text file. How's that for above and beyond? We just didn't have a drive in the office that could handle such an anachronism.
That ad sounds great! I certainly appreciate WP and I know a lot of people still consider it the word processor. I guess it's kind of a shame that these different programs aren't more compatible so people can feel free to use whatever they like at home. Though admittedly a lot of our problems arose back then because we were using Mac systems. Things have gotten a lot more complimentary between Mac and PC in the last few years, it seems.
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Date: 2005-08-18 05:48 pm (UTC)You won't believe the lengths I went through to get that floppy to yield its data. I had to bring it to the local public school, where they ran old computers, and convert it that way into an ASCII text file. How's that for above and beyond? We just didn't have a drive in the office that could handle such an anachronism.
That ad sounds great! I certainly appreciate WP and I know a lot of people still consider it the word processor. I guess it's kind of a shame that these different programs aren't more compatible so people can feel free to use whatever they like at home. Though admittedly a lot of our problems arose back then because we were using Mac systems. Things have gotten a lot more complimentary between Mac and PC in the last few years, it seems.