Appendix D. Scripting
I don’t know why, but some people just like doing things the hard way. Like those people who insist on doing long division on the back of an envelope rather than using a calculator. Or like folks who scroll around their documents using the scroll bars instead of using the grabber hand. Yes, it’s weird, but they seem happy enough; so why bother them by telling them there’s an easier way to do it?
Well, I don’t know about you, but it drives me crazy doing repetitive tasks in QuarkXPress. Stepping through a document to make a tiny formatting change to one little character on each page ... searching for all the paragraphs in my 100-page story that start with a numeral and applying the proper style sheet to them ... changing the ...
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