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11/17/2005: "The wonders of word-processing"
I spent a large part of today wrestling with the print of Book 3 which I mentioned. I work on the laptop now, and the printer I have will sometimes speak to the laptop but sometimes doesn't like it. Today Chapter 1 rolled off the presses quite happily, but Chapter 2 only printed the first page (p 25, as it happens) and stopped. Try again. Same again. And again. When I got to five copies of p 25 I gave up and tried another route.
This involved the disc drive, the printer, and two computers. It also involved files which changed mysteriously from Mac to PC in the length of a cable (why? There are no PCs in this house) and eventually three different floppies, and a recursive procedure a bit like the puzzle about the fox, the chickens and the grain crossing the river. I have no idea what happened to the page format, but I had to re-number everything from Chapter 3 onwards, and I'm sure I lost the place a couple of times. Good luck to the typesetter-- s/he may need it. The whole thing went in the post at 3.30 this afternoon.
Stiff drink time, I think.
Pat McIntosh on Thursday, November 17th 2005 @ 09:44 PM GMT [link]