{"id":465,"date":"2011-09-14T20:42:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T00:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/grim_darkness_far_future_word"},"modified":"2013-11-17T06:56:29","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T06:56:29","slug":"grim_darkness_far_future_word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2011\/09\/grim_darkness_far_future_word.html","title":{"rendered":"In the Grim Darkness of the Far Future, there is only Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least, for writers trying to submit electronically to markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/micahjoel.info\/blog\/2011\/09\/when-smf-fails\/\">Micah explains the problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For markets that take paper submissions, submitting in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shunn.net\/format\/story.html\">Standard Manuscript Format<\/a> is not a big deal. You can use whatever wacky production process you like and print the thing out. Done. Heck, I even wrote an <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/evangoer\/sphinx_dev\">extension to Sphinx<\/a> to produce sffms-latex from reStructuredText. It even works! Mostly.<\/p>\n<p>But as time goes on, this &#8220;analog hole&#8221; will go away. As <em>electronic<\/em> Standard Manuscript Format becomes the defacto format, all of us crazy hippies really will be forced to use Word. For reals. Or possibly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literatureandlatte.com\/\">Scrivener<\/a>, which does a pretty good job of exporting to Word. Actually, come to think of it, that doesn&#8217;t sound <em>too<\/em> grim-dark, does it? Although I do have it on good authority that Scrivener creator Keith Blount sustains his decaying body by <a href=\"http:\/\/warhammer40k.wikia.com\/wiki\/Emperor_of_Mankind\">sitting on a great cybernetic throne<\/a> and draining the life-energy of a thousand psychics every day. So there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least, for writers trying to submit electronically to markets. Micah explains the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}