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We’re not born writers but we can practice. Let’s share here some conventions and recommendations about writing.

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The X-System for Esperanto

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When you start Esperanto, the first thing you learn about is the alphabet. Some latin letters are not used. Others are used with diacritics in combination that are not seen in other languages. Typing those characters may be complicated on a usual computer system. Here’s a workaround.

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Trim trailing spaces in MS Word and LibreOffice

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If you like to deliver clean documents, you probably sometimes display invisible characters in Word. In such occasions, you may have seen lines or paragraphs ending with ·¶. Yes, because a document is not only written but also manipulated and changed a number of times, having trailing spaces is not a rare thing. One of my development reflexes is to trim those, but Word does not provide any tool to do that automatically. Or does it?

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About Writing

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I always wished I had an artistic talent of some sort. Some friends once diagnosed me to be a “latent artist.” The truth however is that I’ve never found myself any sort of skill, but maybe that’s because skill comes from hard work.

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