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Subject:RE: RE: Interviewing "under the hood"? From:John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:48:29 -0400
Gene...I also make 1-off changes, but I do it as little as I can, and even
considering that, it always comes and bites me in the butt later.
How do you make certain that you don't loose that one-off style days or
weeks later into the project.
For instance, I always agonize about what I should do when that message pops
up in Frame to overwrite manual settings.
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> From: GeneK [mailto:gene -at- genek -dot- com]
> I would guess that my styles work just fine about 99% of
> the time, but every once in a while there comes a situation
> where the "correct" style doesn't quite fit, but modifying
> it to make it work will ruin the other 150 or so paragraphs
> with the same style. In that case, I'll "cheat" the style
> with a bit of manual reformatting, and sometimes I'll even
> "cheat" the frame size for a signle page. It's either that
> or create a special "based-on" style for that one instance,
> and IMO, compromising to keep the number of tags in my
> templates down makes individual "cheats" the lesser evil.
> Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Maggie Pierce Secara?wrote:
>
> But I wouldn't like to have to count up the times I
> faked an effect just to get it right when Word decided
> to be playful on deadline day. The only rule is
> "whatever works".
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