Here I am writing up my final report and Word is doing everything in its power to frustrate me. One of the most irritating of its features is related to hung quotes (the use of which Stevie’s typography quest got me into and and I now respond to indented quotes in my documents with faux choking).
Basically, Word was happy with my unordered list style, but refused to automatically hang numbered lists. Each time I select the style I’d have to drag the number back out into the margin. Minor annoyance. Except that when I choose restart numbering for subsequent lists, Word will immediately revert to the default indentation. So I scroll up again and drag each list back in to place.
Then, just now, I restarted numbering on a numbered list again and all my unordered, bulleted lists jumped. The bullet sits in the margin, but the text is a centimetre indented.
I swear, it’s going to be easier to write the final report in HTML.
Oh, just in case anyone is ready to get pedantic on any terminology; I know my typography lexicon sucks.
Update: And, as if by magic here the creators of CSS write about styling for print. Eerie, eh?
Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.