Hypercompendia

Had a moment of panic this morning. Opened up the Paths file I’ve been working with and clicked on a Writing Space…

No text!  There was nothing in any of the writing spaces!

Now this wouldn’t be a big problem except that yesterday was a busy day in the shop and I had gotten this big idea about changing some of the structure and had done some of it without saving it to the two other files since I wasn’t sure about it.  And, I’d made some other important changes.

Hard work counts.  Laziness or lackadaisical effort counts even more towards destruction.

I quickly checked the Preferences and Document boxes to see if I’d made any changes there such as "Don’t show the text–let me guess along with the reader" but I didn’t see any immediate change between this file and the others.  For all I know, I might have marked both background and text as "white". 

More important was to try and fix this copy without upsetting the others.  Here’s what I did:  Deleted the nupatest.sni file (knowing that that’s where the author peculiarities are filed {oh to be able to delete author peculiarities so easily!}) figuring that I could always retrieve it out of the recycle bin if the program didn’t work, or try to copy the ones from the other two files if necessary.  However, I started the program up without it and it works jes’ fine.  Likely has created a new .sni file.  Hmmm.  It’d be interesting to see if you can make changes to the document as far as selection of font, etc., delete the .sni, close the program, reopen it to all new text, etc.

But I’m not about to try it.