Spacing ruler for journals, etc.

Talamond

I've shared this with a few people and figure there might be a couple more who could use it.

This is my crude "ruler" for gauging where the max character limit falls, as well as giving me a way to accurately center text (using a monospace font, of course):

-4321-987654321-987654321-987654321==123456789-123456789-123456789-1234-

Feel free to share your own methods and other formatting tricks.

Talamond

Now with halves, thirds, and quarters:

<-321-987654321-987654321-987654321==123456789-123456789-123456789-123->

<-54321-987654321==123456789-12345-><-54321-987654321==123456789-12345->

<-987654321==123456789-><-987654321==123456789-><-987654321==123456789->

<-654321==123456-><-654321==123456-><-654321==123456-><-654321==123456->

Magenta

If you use a text editor (e.g. Sublime), you can select text, hit CTRL+J, and have the entire text formatted into being one paragraph. Very useful if you want to avoid line breaks where you don't want them. (@Daeir shared this a while ago, so thanks are due to him!)

Aralaya

I use Notepad+

Torinn

I use gdocs but god sublime would be amazing

Talamond

Notepad++ over here.

You can sort of get away with Google Docs if you set the font to Courier New (size 11), bring the right margin down to 0.9 in (2.29 cm), and disable smart quotes.

Xaden

I use mudlet's editor and blind hope...

Torinn

Xaden said:

I use mudlet's editor and blind hope...

You like to live dangerously, don't you?

Atalkez

Xaden said:

I use mudlet's editor and blind hope...

Same. They’re just fancy

Solnir

Also same.

Talamond

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

Literally today, I learned that in Notepad++ you can do column selection and manipulation by holding alt.
Edit: In Sublime it's ctrl + alt, but I had to disable the Intel graphics hotkeys.

Atalkez

Talamond said:

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

There isn’t

Xaden

It's the handsomeness he's referring to, Atalkez.

Chubbs

I use Atom or just plain Notepad for all my stuff.

Shayde

Atalkez said:

Talamond said:

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

There isn’t

The three pretty boys of Targossas. 

Antonius

Shayde said:

Atalkez said:

Talamond said:

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

There isn’t

The three pretty boys of Targossas. 

You've clearly never seen those three...

Talamond

I suppose with me around, there has to be a tier beneath "gorgeous".

Thanks to @Daeir, I think I'm sold on Sublime. Here's my Achaea stuff settings:

"rulers": [72],

"word_wrap": true,

"wrap_width": 73,

"font_face": "Courier New",

"font_size": 9,

"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,

"auto_indent": false,

"draw_indent_guides": false,

"indent_subsequent_lines": false

Aralaya

If anyone wants to give me $80 for sublime I'll use it

Accipiter

@aralaya Isn't it free? I know I didn't pay for it but I might be naughty.

Kogan

Also on 3.3+ (I believe) you can set your Mudlet and sublime text themes to be the same. Which is just nice.

Aralaya

@Accipiter one I found is $80 :

Morthif

I use Kate which is almost as good as notepad++

Atalkez

I use Notepad++ to actually write my stuff in, also use it for my html/JavaScript/c++ code

Accipiter

@Aralaya Pretty sure it is like WinRAR, you can buy it if you like but no one ever does.

Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation.

Jonathin

I just use the mudlet editor and then rage and cuss when I hit the submit button and find out that I was disconnected.

Solnir

Shayde said:

Atalkez said:

Talamond said:

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

There isn’t

The three pretty boys of Targossas. 

I'm the prettiest girl at the ball, tbh

Alyxeri

Aralaya said:

@Accipiter one I found is $80 :

https://www.sublimetext.com/3

"Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. There is currently no enforced time limit for the evaluation."

Shayde

Solnir said:

Shayde said:

Atalkez said:

Talamond said:

Xaden, Atalkez, Solnir... I wonder if there's a common thread among you three.

There isn’t

The three pretty boys of Targossas. 

I'm the prettiest girl at the ball, tbh

Side note: Thanks for the suggestion on sublime. I've just been using standard notepad for editing.