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anna genoese ([personal profile] alg) wrote2006-02-27 04:41 pm

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FOLLOW THE RULES: an article on following the rules of the playground -- because if you don't, we won't let you play in the sandbox.

[identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
And here I was recently having spasms over a contest entry where the rules specified (among other things) that the page numbers be on every sheet except the first. I cannot figure out how, in Pages, to turn it off on the first page (I remember how in Word, but Pages has its little quirks). After a while of fighting with my printer over a cranky cartridge, and a good thirty pages' worth of test printing just to get things looking decent, I gave up and printed everything exactly as it already was, page number 1 and all.

Now, if I get disqualified for THAT, I will be officially pissed off. ;)

...but, um, yes, I double-space everything in Courier.

[identity profile] alg.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Heeeeeeee. You know what you can do?

Buy a bottle of Wite-Out next time. (Or Liquid Paper. I'm not brand-loyal.)

[identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I plan to. ;)

(I'd actually tried using the copier feature on said printer, with the corner folded over so the 1 didn't get copied, but it only exacerbated the printing flaws when it copied. And by then it was late and I was immensely frustrated, as one can get when a terribly expensive printer does not do your bidding. I tried! I read the rules! Really, I did! *sob* ;)

[identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
...and I didn't mean to use the word "copied" that many times. Ahem.

[identity profile] alg.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You are forgiven.

*gives you absolution*

That actually seems like kind of a stupid rule. I wonder what they have it for.

[identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Detecting one's ability to read the fine print?

[identity profile] alg.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, sometimes the fine print is important!

[identity profile] casirafics.livejournal.com 2006-02-27 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That it can be!