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i got featured two times (both neogeo) for typing random quotes haha, april fools was coming up so i've prepared something not funny
@Gimmick Whoa, a lot of that just flew over my head.
@The-Great-One I'll try making a newspost using that process and I'll describe it in more detail there. Perhaps it might help you reduce the effort involved in typing these up if it works.
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@The-Great-One Pandoc is a tool to convert from Markdown to different text formats. Markdown itself is a simple markup language that you'd normally use on StackOverflow, Reddit and other places. OpenOffice is pretty good, but it's not really set up (in my experience) to make it easy to enter the same text repeatedly (like username mentions).
Notepad++ and VS Code usually display a dropdown that shows the past text in the document that matches whatever you're typing (so when you, say, type @ and press Ctrl+Space, then it would show the previous username mentions you typed). While they're usually used for programming, it sounds like it'd be useful for your usecase as well.
And as for what I was referring to earlier with the templates and such, I think a template could be configured to insert the header images (e.g. General, Phonograph, etc.) in lieu of the header text. That is, whenever it encounters the text (which inserts a heading "GENERAL NEWS"):
# GENERAL NEWS
Then it could replace that with the corresponding image, provided it's configured correctly.
So in theory it *should* be possible to type it all up in Markdown using Notepad++/VS Code, run it through Pandoc, open the generated RTF file, copy it and paste it all in the NG News box and everything should appear as it was in the RTF file.