Post #3399508
2026-03-18 14:40 UTC
...over-engineered set of chained WordPerfect macros on them that would format and massage them and insert them into some very carefully-designed templates that would (if all went well) produce print-ready documents that we could slap onto the printing presses in the back room.
(All usually went well, but hiccups occurred often enough to keep me on my toes, and to justify my salary when I resolved them.) 2/7
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@kagan@wandering.shop 2026-03-18 14:40
After the first pass, we'd print a low-res version (on a mere 600dpi laser printer) and send it back to the writers and editors to double-check, and they'd invariably send it back all marked up with edits and whatnot. It was a fun cycle, everyone working as fast as we all could to hone and polish everything. I *loved* the way you could blast commands into WordPerfect's input buffer even while it was trying to re-render stuff, and know without a doubt that it'd... 3/7 #WritersCoffeeClub