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Re: using symbols in MS Word Darren, Not sure if my Symbols feature is less advanced than current incarnations, but it doesn't give any diacritic characters. I wonder if there is an comprehensive, updated software package available? (As for shortcuts, you just create your own, like...

Copied reply from Authors section Hey, Ell That's deeply cool; thanks for the site link - added to my Favourites menu for easy access. (No printer at home, worse luck.) Not to push my luck, but what about how to do it in MS programs like Word? P.S. I bet you did go to Hogwart's...

Back to the regular transmission Right, good point - I'll do the same. (Should have paid closer attention there; sorry, all.) From here it's back to Em, Anne and... oh, the other one, what was her name? Deep voice, didn't get out much, had some dippy Angels... wait! - Charlie! Tobytook

Hey, Ell That's deeply cool; thanks for the site link - added to my Favourites menu for easy access. (No printer at home, worse luck.) Not to push my luck (with Ian, too, considering the OT-ness (?!) of this whole thing), but what about how to do it in MS programs like Word? Tobytook

Ovid - howzat for a bona fide heavyweight! (And because George Orwell was too obvious, and didn't write as many erotic poems.) Tobytook

Er, sorry Ian, that's got nothing to do with the Brontë sisters really, has it? Nice links, by the way. Tobytook

Well, somebody's yet to put forward an actual criteria, although Darren & Ell have made some very interesting points. It's entirely possible that - as someone pointed out - defining what is (and is not) fiction can't be done to universal satisfaction. It seems overly strict to characterise...

As Dawn appears to have opened the floodgates for this kind of thing, I'll add my own modest torrent: A helpful family member managed to format my C Drive some time ago, so I had to reinstall Windows (I’m using '95 - no hilarious Stone Age comments, please; it's [ahem!] a financial...

Did you go to Hogwarts or something? That is magic! Do I just know very little, or have you got a special I.T.-sorcery diploma? How did you know how to do it? I got some good tips from GeoCities Alphabet Street but their HTML formula differs from yours in the case of the ë (using...

Probably true, Ell, but we're giving it a go, which can only be a good thing. Liked the Wolfe anecdote, by the way. So you seem to be saying that fiction inevitably comes into play when people are introduced. Or, more specifically, when their mental and emotional landscapes are introduced...

Is your dad Fish? Not a fish, but Fish the erudite, erstwhile singer from arty soft metal concept-band wannabes Marillion? (Yes, this boy doth protest too much - I used to like some of their stuff :eek: ) His real name's Derek Dick, which sort of justifies the use of an alias - if not...

To share or not to share... Good points, both of you, but it did strike me as unattractively juvenile that people, some of whom had decried the Booker for years as meaningless and flawed, suddenly started shouting the equivalent of "It's our game and you're not joining in!" (Worse, one of...

= the point of the discussion. = a light-hearted throwaway line. Sorry if I don't express myself clearly enough. I'll start using more similies. Except I won't. Tobytook

Er, yeah. Nice one. I don't suppose the book's author is usually the one to print up the jacket. It's the publisher who generally decides under what category to put it out. My copy of On The Road is published by Penguin, and it states quite clearly on the back that it's Fiction. But the...

Leonard, Elmore Crime writer extraordinaire, still the master of ultra-hip dialogue at 77 years old. Tobytook

This just hit me, leaning back as I was, having a look around the shelves and counting up the non-fiction books. What about books like On The Road - well, pretty much all of Kerouac's oeuvre - and others in that vein. Autobiographies and biographies that are (in some part) fictionalised, or...

A fittingly weighty piece of news to get this section of The Book Forum going. A hoo-hah blew up in UK literary circles this week about the future of the Booker Prize. (For users not familiar with the Booker, just think Pulitzer and dress it in Commonwealth clothes.) Following the...

Don't panic It's not the end of the world, although (as TownBear suggests) it would be a good idea to avoid sending emails - but you'd probably already figured that out. Darren has supplied the link I was going to, and your best bet is to follow it. Unless the trial download is enough to...

Worthy! Worthy! Lies, Hey, if we were doing this in your native language, I'd be totally lost from square one. We've just had a blip on the line, that's all. Don't worry, you're still much cooler than me ;) Tobytook

Conflicting priorities I'm not sure it's a matter or agreeing or disagreeing. It's not that our opinions are differing so much as we're basically talking at :confused: cross purposes. We're coming at this from opposite ends - I'm focused on the specific contextual result of (fully)...