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Hallelujah, saints be praised, ye gods and little fishies woohoo! According to this article at CNet News, Microsoft is getting rid of Times New Roman as the font of choice in Office 2007. (A more indepth article is here at fadtastic.net, and an article with example text in the new font, Cambria (as well as others they're rolling out) is here at Poynter.org. Cambria's pretty. ::G::

Hate hate hate hate hate Times New Roman. I actually have a folder in My Documents on my harddrive called "Times Prison" where I store the damn thing (in case a program just blows up without it) so that it's not in my font folder and my programs are forced to default to their secondary font. I was very luck in college because my professors accepted (and generally preferred) Arial for papers (which, coincidentally, takes up the most room per letter, if you're ever writing a paper based on page count and not word count. Verify, of course, that your teacher/professor will accept it. Many will.)

It's not that it's a serif font, though I do prefer sans-serif in general. (Verdana is my favorite.) I have an abiding love for Courier New, which is a serif font, possibly because my first exposure to fanfiction was reading pages and pages of plain text.

(Because yes, I'm old, and I don't just remember when fanfiction.net was cool, I remember when the Gossamer Project was cool. Back then? There were no nifty publishing apps to make archives out of. You either linked plain .txt files and trusted the author to have followed the formatting codes regarding character-per-line length or you hand coded everything before you put the .html version up. To this day when I write I still lean towards just using *asterisks* to indicate italics. And I have to remember that I can write straight in Word format rather than having to write it in Notepad, check the spelling in Word, and then save the Notepad draft to keep "smart quotes" - evil things - from blowing up in the final output.) And we had to walk uphill both ways to get to the archive. Snerk.

I'm not 100% sure if they're removing it completely or if they're just bumping it as the default standard, but it makes me happy either way. ::G::

[livejournal.com profile] sabre_hawke you might be interested in Poynter.org as it is a site for journalists about writing journalism.

Date: 2006-08-24 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kurayaminokoe.livejournal.com
bwahaha.

In college, teachers didn't really care what font as long as it was readable and uhm... presentable? So times, verdana, arial and such fonts were accepted. I think I stuck most by verdana... arial looked too big?

And uhm, i think my first fics were written in notepad too... not that they were any good, but that's allright... english isn't my native language and I think I learned lots from writing and reading :) Actually, because I was on dial up at the time, I'd save fics in notepad or wordpad (for the really big ones) and read them offline...

Date: 2006-08-24 07:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jarrodhenry.livejournal.com
Fanfiction.net was cool?

I always found it annoying and filled with too much slash and not enough serious fanfic. Now I find it annoying, filled with too much slash and not enough serious fanfic, and so massive that it's impossible to find the good serious fanfic.

I mean, I wrote a law and order fanfic, and it was really good.. and it got buried because someone did a Jack McCoy/Lenny Briscoe slash piece.

All the fanficcing I did "back in the day" ended up being on private servers where we'd do the coil binding and selling type publishing to fangroup members.

We'd meet and transfer stuff over FidoNet

Date: 2006-08-25 01:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-am-girlfriday.livejournal.com
HA! The Gossamer Project was my introduction to fanfic! I actually never read anything on fanfiction.net until I got into BSG! Oh Gossamer...how you entertained me :) Courier New is the preferred publishing world font. It's set as my default. Times New Roman is a colleg student's worst nightmare. It's so small! I'd fudge thing with Georgia. LOL!

Date: 2006-08-25 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dark-raven13.livejournal.com
I like times new roman. ...weeps for poor old reliable times new roman...

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