Observations on the world and its inhabitants
I used Microsoft Word for decades. Same with Google Docs. They worked fine. I never thought about changing. Then, about six months ago, I stumbled into Markdown. Not because I was looking for it, but because I got fed up, about formatting that never stayed put and with files that bloated to megabytes. Turns out, ...
Despite explicit instructions, generative AI systems routinely drift into US English spelling and conventions across longer writing projects. For British-English authors who use AI assistance, this creates a persistent and time-consuming editorial burden. The key insight that resolved this was accepting that generation and linguistic compliance should be treated as separate stages. Rather than attempting ...
I’m totally uninterested in whether you or anyone else who reads this has no need to italicise text between quotation marks. As I don’t like wasting time I find automated solutions. A common task is italicising text between quotation marks. When using the Writage plugin to edit Markdown files within Microsoft Word, a common formatting ...
