my superpower is bizarre software bugs
Jun. 13th, 2013 02:17 pmCase in point.
My best one remains, however, the intermittent one in OpenOffice Writer under Debian on my netbook. Sometimes - just occasionally, usually when in a bulleted environment - the program, of its own accord, starts italicising every other character.
And it will let you italicise the whole lot, but not deitalicise them.
The only reason I'm certain I didn't hallucinate this on several separate occasions is that
shortcipher has witnessed it.
So, you know, this particular bug is not quite up there, but I am nonetheless kind of impressed with myself.
My best one remains, however, the intermittent one in OpenOffice Writer under Debian on my netbook. Sometimes - just occasionally, usually when in a bulleted environment - the program, of its own accord, starts italicising every other character.
And it will let you italicise the whole lot, but not deitalicise them.
The only reason I'm certain I didn't hallucinate this on several separate occasions is that
So, you know, this particular bug is not quite up there, but I am nonetheless kind of impressed with myself.