Why hasnt the free market created a word processor for lawyers? I am sick to death of having to stop Word from superscripting my ordinals, from capitalizing at after id., from correcting spellings of latin terms, from squiggly-criticizing my citation sentences because they dont have verbs. And I know I could turn off Auto-correct for all that, but I write other things too (or I used to) where those features are useful. The worst thing, though, is the way Word ghetto-izes footnotes; the default font cant be changed and its some shitty size 10 Calibri, you cant change view options while editing footnotes, and you cant attach comments to material in footnotes at all (which is the most annoying thing in the goddamn world when youre research editing). And why the hell isnt there a citation checker that works like a spellchecker would, where it can squiggle-criticize a citation if its form is incorrect--or even better, if doesnt correctly link back to the source? Why the hell isnt there a bind supra function so that you can reference another footnote and have the number change when you move the target footnote? Why the hell is configuring keyboard shortcuts for endash, emdash, section, and paragraph symbols a chore that I have to do every goddamn time I use a new computer? Like, the amount of money Microsoft would save based on its lawyers time savings alone would pay for them to develop this software, twice over. So WHY DOESNT THIS EXIST?!?
Posted on: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 21:26:07 +0000
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