Aswiebe's Market List Update 2009-05

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The next update of Aswiebe's Market List will be on 06/15/2009.

Editor's Note
This month, I had one of the most frustrating (software) experiences imaginable. For the last couple of years, I've used OpenOffice, a free open-source word processor. I work in their format and then save the document in whatever format the editor wants before submitting--usually doc or rtf. I recently had occasion to open up one of those old rtf documents, and what I discovered was disheartening. OpenOffice was not saving the formatting correctly. It only preserved line spacing for the first couple of paragraphs, and if there was any bold or italics in a paragraph, it bolded or italicized the whole paragraph. The alignment got messed up occasionally too. Any writer who's tinkered to get the spacing and the emphasis and the headers exactly the way an editor wants them knows how bad this is. I'm trying very hard not to think about how this must have reflected on my submissions.

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