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Old 02-09-2014, 12:44 PM   #101
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74007,1015 (been closed at least 10 years now)
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And what is fascinating there is the linkage to The Monkees and also to the music video.
Different media for different generations. But transitions from one type of media to another — and one type of communication method to another — seem to be speeding up. (Or maybe it's me slowing down.) I've paper'd, landline-phoned, sliderule'd, calculator'd, typewriter'd, audio-system'd (45, 33 lp, reel-to-reel, cassette, cd, mp3), computer'd, video-system'd (cassette, dvd), BBposted, online-service'd, IRC'd, IM'd, cellphoned, smartphoned, e-inked, tablet'd, streamed. Rarely texted. Never tweeted. Never skyped or facetimed.

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I am probably one of the few who actually went to a one room school with no running water, a wood stove at the back (in front of the only door so a real fire hazard), his and her outhouses, a wood shed and a well and bucket (the well water was tainted so a bit of bleach was added to each bucket to purify it)....
His and Her outhouses? Luxury! We had to share one.

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One way someone could edit a document in a word processor for publication as an ebook is to put a tag around the bold and italics manually, make sure they don't use hard breaks for anything other than paragraphs and when the file looks good save it to text (that's txt not rtf).

Next step, reload the document under a test name. Search for the markers for bold and italic. Change the bold and italic to bold... italic.

Now try saving the document as html.

This should remove a great deal of the excess formatting.
Sounds similar to this:

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

(mentioned in Prefs > Input Options > TXT Input > Markdown)

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