The Mental Design Team Edits a Pattern

Butterfly the Visual Inspiration Girl started to fly out the window: It’s too hard, There’s more things to do than I expected…Why don’t we start another project instead?

Editor caught her ankle: I think they are going to need you, sit in the corner and look at these drafts, you can tell us if the margins are straight.

Butterfly took a deep breath: Oh you’re right, this is over-printed. Can I go now?

Editor let go the ankle to point out the margin problem to Patternist, Butterfly escaped.

Patternist: Oh don’t worry, we have to fix the charts next, she can’t resist those. Do you know how to get LaTexa to break the lines in the middle of a description environment?

Editor: Why are we using a description environment so much?

Patternist: It lets us bold the Row #: then have the rest of that instruction line indented – it’s not really a list of descriptions, but it’s the closest formatting to usual pattern layouts I could find.

Editor: Do you think we should switch to a WYSWIYO sort of thing, this is more like programming than editing.

Patternist: But Programming is a fun as making spreadsheets!

Mama Bear: Besides, Butterfly made it out the window, who are you going to get to look at the text is she’s not around? The kids have been calling for a while, it’s time to take care of them.

Patternist: I don’t want to switch gears!

Editor: We’ve made such progress on the Tech Editor’s comments on the rough draft!

Sample Knitter: You might as well find out what they want, I’m bored.

Mama Bear: You ignore those kids any longer and I’ll…

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