Appendix B. 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 layouts 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 doing repetitive tasks in QuarkXPress drives me crazy. Stepping through a layout 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 then applying the proper style sheet to them, changing the border ...
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