On Sunday 01 August 2004 05:35 pm, Juha Siltala wrote: > One day, a couple of years ago, I had a couple of harmless xterms open on > my pretty desktop. I was about to clean up my ~/shit (or something, just a > temporary directory), but issued 'rm -rf *' in the wrong xterm. Hey, the > contents of my home directory are gone! > > Note to self: before coffee, do nothing.
I had had my caffeine too. No excuses. It got better. I printed the document a second time, then I punched holes in all 50 sheets (OK, it was only a 100-page document...) and bound it (I own a comb binder for this very reason) and then I started marking up changes. (It's easier for me to take stock of where I am on paper.) Page 1. Page 1. Page 3. Page 3. WTF? Aw, f*ck. I wasted an entire tree today I think. > Anyway, I had the last night's backups, so there was nothing but the > cleaning of underware to care about. I was also writing something, but the > document was still open in LyX, so it was safe as long as LyX didn't crash > (and it almost never does). BTW, I'm not doing LyX, but I've taken the point you used to make about how much you hate word processors. I'm using OO, and writing HTML (crap HTML, but let's just not go there) and letting the styles do their job. I never used to write like this, but on a big project, it's really indispensable. Move a chapter, renumber a section, rearrange the TOC. Life sure got easier once I sat down and figured out a way to let the computer do all the work of making it look like something snazzy. I write with OO, then put everything together with HTMLDOC. Web site, PDF, everything all prettied up and slick looking without my having to dick around with all the formatting every time I change something. You were definitely right about this, even if I'm still being obstinate enough to continue using an inferior markup language machine-generated with an inferior pseudo wysiwyg editor. :) -- Michael McIntyre ---- Silvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux fanatic, and certified Geek; registered Linux user #243621 http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/5407/ http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
