I had a bad day today. Things were going wrong. I had to clean up a lot of mess. I was stressed, I was annoyed, I was tetchy (Yes Kryten, I said "Tetchy!"). I then received a note from an author which possibly sent me over the edge. To understand this, you may need to understand indexes. Sometimes authors make their own indexes, sometimes we have freelancers do them. This particular author was doing his own, but he had already created the list of indexing terms, all he really has to do is search (ctrl f) the pdf document, check the page number (of the manuscript itself not the pdf document), and write it down...
Author: "Can you please send me a new pdf with the prelims removed, so that I don't have to subtract that number every time I find an indexing term?"
What I want to say: "No. Stop looking at the pdf page number and look at the numbers embedded in the actual pages!!!! IDIOT!!!"
What I actually say and do: "Of course. Here is the new document." (After opening the document, going to "document" - "delete pages", deleting the appropriate pages, then "save as". That was hard, wasn't it?!)
Isn't life grand?
Sometimes life gives us lemons... you grow immune to the bitterness.
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