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		<title>MS Word: Deleting Blank Line in Footnotes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blank line is appearing between footnotes in a document I have been sent. When I try to delete the line, from above or below, MS Word tells me that &#8220;this is not a valid action for footnotes.&#8221; Why can&#8217;t the line be deleted? When I reveal formatting, it turns out that it is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MS Word fix: Text direction in comment balloons for documents created in a right-to-left language</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reversing text direction in comment balloons for documents created in a right-to-left language country SOLUTION: Open up a marginal comment to the MS Word file; Click in the marginal comment (i.e. place cursor inside it); Click the left-to-right icon on the upper-most menu strip (normally to the right of &#8216;View Gridlines&#8217;) &#8212; text in comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shout out for York Print Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Baking a Turd: Language polishing Google translate</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 18:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin, a music producer, told me: sure it&#8217;s possible to polish a turd. First you bake it, then lacquer it. I reflect on these words as I attempt to language polish the output of Google translate. I wonder what subtle principles of linguistics and aesthetics &#8212; principles of which we as sentient language speakers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bibliography to footnote references</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 17:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m switching a set of papers from Chicago notes-bibliography style with full bibliography to Chicago notes-bibliography style without full bibliography. As any fule no, this will mean expanding the first occurence of the reference item in the notes from shortened to full form (among other things). Since it&#8217;s May, and a sunny evening, it&#8217;s important [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terrible Philosophy Covers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic philosophy books seem particularly prone to terrible covers, leading me to think that if we can&#8217;t think of a decent thing to put on the front of the book, then maybe we shouldn&#8217;t have written it in the first place. What, for example, does this cover tell us about the content of Paul Horwich&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouspensky obliterated</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[New number one in my list of worst copyediting mistakes of all time: the consistent misspelling of &#8216;Ouspensky&#8216; as &#8216;Onpensky&#8217; in the text of Aldo Leopold&#8217;s &#8216;The Land Ethic&#8217;, in Hugh LaFollette&#8216;s first year ethics collection &#8216;Ethics in Practice&#8217;. See here. I&#8217;ve taught a course based on this book: Leopold is the highlight of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The difference between a PhD thesis and a book</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years back, I was advised that I should not expect my PhD to be the best thing I would ever write. &#8216;It had better not be!&#8217; expostulated the academic in question, &#8216;otherwise you&#8217;ll never be able to make any progress in your academic career.&#8217; Although in fact this turned out to be true, it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Ibid.&#8217;: Finding those pesky periods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Ibid.&#8217; is an abbreviation for &#8216;ibidem&#8216; (&#8216;in the same place&#8217;). The full stop in &#8216;ibid.&#8217; is therefore obligatory. But it can be dashed hard to spot. To automate the search (in MS Word), hit Cntrl-F to bring up the Find/Replace box, enable Wildcards, and enter: ibid[!.] in the find box. This little string finds instances [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grim, grim news from England</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The grim, grim news from England flows unabated. The rule of the modern robber baron is unchallenged. This morning, for the first time in many years, I listened to BBC Radio 4&#8242;s &#8216;Today&#8217; programme to hear the news of John Browne&#8217;s education review. In a saner world, it would be unthinkable that someone like John [...]]]></description>
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