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#Formatting

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Cara Bruar

Trying to finish a short story for submission. Why is that para in a different tense? Why is there a mix of straight and curly quotes? Why even is formatting? Surely this is something ai could do? Sorry I mentioned it. #formatting

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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

formstting services
#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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scy

TIL: If you are using a language server capable of autoformatting, formatting your whole file in Neovim is as easy as calling vim.lsp.buf.format().

And since LSP formatters use edit commands instead of replacing your whole file, Neovim can keep track of the cursor position, marks, and all kinds of other stuff that wasn't possible with just `:%!formatter`.

I've replaced my custom tiny autoformatting plugin with this and I don't regret it.

codeberg.org/scy/dotfiles/comm

codeberg.orgMaking sure you're not a bot!
#Neovim#LSP#formatting
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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Dendrobatus Azureus

I've just finished reading this blog post regarding the markdown Syntax by RL Dane

He is also given a brief history of the Computing Hardware and software that he has used ever since he was a little Padawan.

The blog post is just a few minutes to read and you shall learn something good from it.

TLDR is; use {smackdown} markdown for everything you write that needs formatting and be truly platform independent in your formatted text creation.

When you truly understand what he means, it is literal total freedom with formatted text and you don't even need to learn tex or LaTeX, since you will not be writing a book.

When you do that you will have to read my posts regarding tex and LaTeX, and those are blog posts I haven't released.

For me markdown has been important, ever since I was working on waffle bulletin boards many many decades ago

*Bold* _underline_ /italic/ was the syntax that we used back then.

Our waffle bulletin board had a special text formatting routine which Made these codes look like they were actually bold underline and italic when we were viewing those emails.

On the #AmIRC channel on Dalnet we also had a formatting routines for our clients, mine was AmIRC that converted these codes in a similar fashion.

So in true Essence markdown has been with us for a very very long time; we just didn't call it markdown then but we made sure that our text formatting had nothing to do with the computer platform we happen to be typing on.

rldane.space/why-i-love-markdo

#Markdown #formatting #programming #Tex #LaTeX #HTML

@rl_dane

The screencap shows a mobile device screen displaying a blog post titled "Why I Love Markdown" by R.L. Dane, dated Friday, 11 April 2025. The post begins with a brief introduction about Markdown, followed by a humorous anecdote about the author's experience with early computers. The text is presented in a dark theme with blue and white text, and the author's name is displayed in a blue banner at the top. The post's content is partially visible, with the first paragraph discussing the author's fondness for Markdown and a brief history of writing in the digital age. The author mentions having ADHD and humorously notes their tendency to include unnecessary details. The post also includes a personal anecdote about the author's first computer, an Apple rented by their mother for a university computer class, where they only wrote BASIC programs. The bottom of the screen shows a URL bar with the address "rldane.space/why-i-love-markdown" and a notification count of 37. The device's status bar at the top shows the time as 05:32, the battery level at 93%, and the temperature at 24°C. Ovis2-8B 🌱 Energy used: 0.277 Wh
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Pusher of Pixels

#UI #UX #Formatting

an email from my medical provider had a weird formatting glitch I've never seen before. (an 'email'/message in their online portal so technically a web page)

The words 'medications you' are smashed together such that the s of medications and the y of you are superimposed on each other, but if I select/copy/paste it's correct

'medications you'

a screen shot of an email from my medical provider with an odd formatting glitch. It is just black text with white background.
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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J. Scott Coatsworth, Author

I've been formatting books for seven years now and have done hundreds of titles. Have a new book you want to self-publish, but just don't quite know how to prep your book files? We use Vellum for the Mac, and provide formatting for ePub (all formats) and pdf/print.

Best of all? It's just $85, changes included. Try it now:

otherworldsink.com/formatting/

#bookformatting#formatting#vellum
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