Howdy Bruce Johnson, Back in 1997 I was starting my second career, which ended in 2009 by being laid off, as a computer support tech at a local college and I don't recall there being a standard program for anything. Of course there were several programs that where written for Apple and Windows. From 2001 to 2009 I was assigned to the software library and saw a lot of programs that where supposed to layout books that had their own oddities. However, deadlines and computers seem to have gremlins that mess things up badly. Tom Rux -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Johnson Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 12:49 PM To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com Subject: Re: [TML] FF&S > On Apr 28, 2015, at 12:17 PM, Derek Wildstar <xxxxxx@prismnet.com> > wrote: > >> >> What I still can't wrap my mind around is that they took the final draft >> in Word format, apparently without reading it, dumped it into some print >> layout program, and never bothered to error check anything. > > Yes. And on top of that we sent them a test file weeks ahead of time so > that they could take the time to iron those kinds of kinks out of their > process before they went to lay out the actual manuscript. To this day I cannot comprehend what weird non-standard layout program would take an asterisk and turn it into three characters '>|<‘. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs ----- The Traveller Mailing List Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml Report problems to xxxxxx@travellercentral.com To unsubscribe from this list please goto http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=zZOCJCw2BI9jPrGTB4OJoibiHbbTEiok=
