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Ugh, should be fixed. Another transfer problem that always has to be catched manually. I've been putting articles online since the mid-1990s, and in 30 fecking years of watching ever more elaborate text processing, DTP, web and content systems evolve from hand-assembled HTML 2 through homebrew content-management systems to CSS/HTML 5 and the fancy commercial CMSs of today, and desktop processor speeds go from 66 MHz to 3 GHz, we still can't reliably guarantee things like italics or superscripts will automatically go all the way through from word processor to browser.

I honestly thought that problem would be solved way before e.g. automated interview transcription...




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