How to be obsessed with formatting
As someone who is a perfectionist when it comes to making published documents look absolutely flawless (note blog design), I have a tendency to spend lots of time doing whatever it takes to make something as I want it to be.
Every break had to be 10-point, every header 14-point, all main text 12, all by-lines 11, and all "continued on page x" 10-point. Quotations had to be italicized when in the margins. There had to be no space between a dash and a person's name in the by-line. Paragraph indent had to be set at .5", except for the obituary, which was 0.2" and italicized.
That was Word... now I had to convert to PDF, which meant changing to an Adobe font. Which of course screws everything up. I eventually figured out my margins had to be smaller. Then I couldn't figure out why a column was too long... it turns out I missed changing the font on it so it became too big when Adobe converted it. It took me over 10 tries to get the thing to an acceptable document, though it is still not exactly perfect because of some extra white space I had to live with.
So that's done. Let's do it in HTML! Headers in 12-point verdana bold italics. Text in 10. By-lines in 8. Links in 10 with red hyperlink. "^top" was in 8 and red hyperlink. There was a one paragraph drop between all paragraphs, bylines, and "^top"s. The right column was 550 pixels, the left 150. The bordering table was 766 to allow for the cut-out look background image. And there wasn't supposed to be a hyperlink on the last header, stupid Geocities! I fixed that by linking to the sep bar instead of the text.
So that's obsession with formatting. Are you feeling tedious too?
Every break had to be 10-point, every header 14-point, all main text 12, all by-lines 11, and all "continued on page x" 10-point. Quotations had to be italicized when in the margins. There had to be no space between a dash and a person's name in the by-line. Paragraph indent had to be set at .5", except for the obituary, which was 0.2" and italicized.
That was Word... now I had to convert to PDF, which meant changing to an Adobe font. Which of course screws everything up. I eventually figured out my margins had to be smaller. Then I couldn't figure out why a column was too long... it turns out I missed changing the font on it so it became too big when Adobe converted it. It took me over 10 tries to get the thing to an acceptable document, though it is still not exactly perfect because of some extra white space I had to live with.
So that's done. Let's do it in HTML! Headers in 12-point verdana bold italics. Text in 10. By-lines in 8. Links in 10 with red hyperlink. "^top" was in 8 and red hyperlink. There was a one paragraph drop between all paragraphs, bylines, and "^top"s. The right column was 550 pixels, the left 150. The bordering table was 766 to allow for the cut-out look background image. And there wasn't supposed to be a hyperlink on the last header, stupid Geocities! I fixed that by linking to the sep bar instead of the text.
So that's obsession with formatting. Are you feeling tedious too?
posted by Choops | 11:44 PM
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