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[schmerica]

Is there something about Due South fandom that encourages annoying formatting? I don't think I've come across many instances anywhere else, but here I keep getting links to all these stories in book-type format -- one line break and a tab for each paragraph. Which, you know, is hard enough to read on screen (especially for long amounts of time) that I'm automatically skipping them, including ones that seem to be recced highly.

It is mighty vexing, I must say.

Comments

formatting

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

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See - that's why I save them to my PC and format them for my Palm Pilot. I get what I want, and I don't have to sit at the computer.

I have been known to save things as plain text and just reformat them and read them on the 'puter, though. Global search/replace is a wonderful thing. I don't recommend using MS Word for it, though - I use Note Tab Pro (http://www.notetab.com), which has easy-to-find-and-use commands for both replacing line breaks and joining broken lines.

Re: formatting

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I think I'm just too lazy too put the formatting effort into it, you know? If they're not in a way comfortable to me to read, I won't read them. It's just a little annoying it's happening so often all of a sudden.

Re: formatting

[greyhat.livejournal.com]

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Well, it depends on how attached you are to reading things in that fandom. For Firefly, I'll save and reformat *anything*. For other fandoms, it depends. It's kinda like LJ - anyone who uses white (or worse, red) text on a black backgroud isn't gonna say anything that I want to read. :>

lol

[dossier.livejournal.com]

uhm, yeah is that like the weirdest thing? the culture of posting from different lists. Sounds meta to me.

the link yesterday? or was it friday's? with the weird format? Well worth reading, despite the funky format.

Re: lol

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

But don't they know they're supposed to do things the way *I* like? Jeez!

Is this a link of ds_flashback you mean, or somewhere else?

sorry

[dossier.livejournal.com]

yes, I went back and checked, it was the sunday ds_flashback.