On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:32:00   Richard D. Lawson wrote:

From: Shunsuke <shunsuke@mailcity.com>

I wholeheartedly disagree and see it exactly the
opposite.  For writing fanfics, you should use a non-
formatting, 7-bit ASCII text editor.  Be it Notepad,
VI, or edlin (I'm kidding), stick to a text only
program.

And here, I disagree.  For the past year and a half, I have written all of
my fanfics in Microsoft Word.  There are a few caveats, of course:  you have
to turn off "smart quotes", you have to disable much of Word's "auto-format
as you type" features, and you must save the first time as "Text Only". 

Okay, okay everybody, I relent! ^_^  You don't have 
to use a vanilla editor to write, but can I beseech 
the general authorship to *check* your fics with one 
before you post your stories?

I agree that you shouldn't send a ".doc" file to the FFML, but you can still
use an advanced word processor to create simple text files.

-Richard

See everybody, you *can* have an alternate point of 
view to someone else's without having to throttle 
the other to make it.

<prays on knees to the kami that people pay attention 
and stop flaming and arguing>

Shunsuke



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