If No Pain = No Gain, Does Pain = Gain?

I hope so.

Because I’ve been engaged in a painstaking reformatting of my six-year-old novelLecture Notes in order to prepare it for publication. And by painstaking I mean that its original form included endless extra spaces between paragraphs and a double space after every full stop. Find and Replace can’t do a thing about that. I can’t enter ‘two spaces’ and have it replaced by ‘space’, after all. Oh, if only.

It’s not just the technical difficulties. The whole premise isn’t one I’d necessaril...