Easy Ace wrote:
"Let me tell you something about a people like me:
I believe in freedom.
I believe in individual rights and responsibility."
I believe you, honestly I do, but...
The one thing I wish you'd learn to "believe in" is... the proper use of carriage returns in formatting your posts.
Most of them are downright painful to look at. All-but unreadable.
Didn't you say you work in publishing, or something like that?
What kind of computer are you using?
I use a standard desktop computer---well, not really. It's a full-powered, top-of-the-line gaming
computer, not because I'm into gaming (I'm really not), but because I work with a small tonnage
of sound and visual media in my lines of work---free-lance writing/editing and music. I've been
a journalist of a sort since 1987, when I began in small city/regional daily newspapers, and
columns remain part of my working apparatus. Whatever accommodations I make to the age
of supertech, some certain things I refuse to surrender; when I write on a computer, I write
column-width, or close to it. But when I write on a paper notepad (which I still do, if only to
flesh or think out an idea---I'm not as smart as some people you and me can both think about,
I have to think before I write), I still use (drumroll, please) a fountain pen.
I use the "carriage return" as you call it to make it simpler to read a paragraph than having
to read even
more painfully across the full length of the screen. It isn't easy, Clyde, but I do
what I can with what is presented to me. Funny, though, that everyone else---even those who
disagree with me---find my formatting reasonable enough!