Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social

Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one wants to write comments on footnotes.’ PhD Supervisors. ‘?????’ Microsoft Word developers. ‘No-one WHO MATTERS wants to write comments on footnotes.’

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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 12:35 UTC

This is why all PhD candidates should be forced to write their theses in LaTeX. Besides, it's fun!

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Kansas History @kshistoryjournal.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 01:15 UTC

Ouch!

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Calvin, 1st Viscountess Nivlac @1stviscountess.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 12:15 UTC

Footnotes should be for citations only and there’s no reason you would need to comment on those if the person is in any way competent.

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Rules Don't Work @rulesdontwork.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 11:06 UTC

Thanks This frustrates me SO MUCH

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Dimitrios Diamantaras @ddiamantaras.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 11:43 UTC

It’s never too late to switch to LaTeX, open source and free, with many good editor applications available, a nice one with nice collaborative comments being overleaf dot com.

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CVII @cviibyz.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 12:06 UTC

Literally had this problem this week

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mokrates @mokrates.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Microsoft software is just bad.

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Dr Michael Fraser @ffinlo.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 08:16 UTC

LibreOffice for PhD Supervisors

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Charles Randles @randlesc.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 16:02 UTC

Editors don't matter either.

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Eric Dunn @corpkiller.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 09:35 UTC

This is an annoyance for appellate litigators as well. Lots of footnotes in those briefs!

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Gary Bauer @garf1eld.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 15:32 UTC

We need ' toe notes '

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Mel @melsf.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 01:30 UTC

Yes. True. Used written comments until a few years ago.

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 06:45 UTC

Microsoft Word developers. "No one really matters"

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Su-ming Khoo @sumingkhoo.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 08:07 UTC

Why can't we comnent or edit? So irritating. Also Microsoft: we have a monopoly so we don't care about users

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Josh @joshgoldberg7.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 04, 2024 at 02:37 UTC

You misspelled “lawyers”

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Julia Partheymüller @schnizzl.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 03, 2024 at 11:51 UTC

🤣🤣🤣

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