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Nottingham archery club

Post 21

MaW

Yes, Word likes to do that... I prefer to do stuff with LaTeX, which produces beautiful output but is really nothing like Word at all, other than that you can use it to write essays. It's actually very, very good at essays... section numbering, figures, table of contents, indexing and stuff works very well.


Nottingham archery club

Post 22

MaW

Yes, Word likes to do that... I prefer to do stuff with LaTeX, which produces beautiful output but is really nothing like Word at all, other than that you can use it to write essays. It's actually very, very good at essays... section numbering, figures, table of contents, indexing and stuff works very well.


Nottingham archery club

Post 23

Laura

LaTeX? The only things that comes to mind there are rubber gloves. smiley - erm Shows what I know about computer softwhere...

Sounds brilliant though smiley - biggrin. Trying to produce a neat contents page in Word is near impossible.


Nottingham archery club

Post 24

MaW

Yeah smiley - smiley LaTeX is designed for scientific papers mostly, so it's great for computer science and maths stuff.

I shot this afternoon! Did a Portsmouth, lowest score for a while smiley - sadface Really need to practice more.


Nottingham archery club

Post 25

Laura

That'll explain it then

At least you got to practise smiley - smiley


Nottingham archery club

Post 26

MaW

Yes... we'll be shooting outside on Sundays next term! Woohoo!


Nottingham archery club

Post 27

Laura

Yay! smiley - biggrinsmiley - magic That'll be fun. Never shot outside before. smiley - smiley


Nottingham archery club

Post 28

MaW

Oh it's fantastic. I was talking to Nick yesterday, and he says he doesn't like it because there's wind and stuff, but I feel much more natural shooting longer distances - 60 yards seems to be my natural one, although I really need to do some 80 some time, a lot of shoots involve 80 yards and I've never tried it with my current bow.

Maybe that's just because at home I always shoot a lot more in the summer, when we're outside, and tend to be more likely to skip sessions in the winter when we're indoors and extremely cramped (too many of us).


Nottingham archery club

Post 29

Laura

I've never shot further than the 20 yards in the small sports hall, so no idea what trebling the distance is going to have smiley - erm. Could involve much missing of the target...

Wind and stuff smiley - smiley. Should make it more intersting. Especially if it's a nice day like today (shame it's the last day of the high pressure though smiley - wah).


Nottingham archery club

Post 30

MaW

Don't go for 60 straight away, start with 30, then try 40, 50 and 60 gradually - they're all distances used in outdoor shoots, although not that many go below 40 unless you're a junior. 40 isn't really that hard though - yes, your scores are lower, but actually hitting the boss isn't particularly difficult.


Nottingham archery club

Post 31

Laura

Well, 30 isn't that much further. smiley - smiley Doesn't the target get a bit hard to see though?


Nottingham archery club

Post 32

MaW

Yes, it can. At 60 it can get hard to see where your arrows are going, at 100 it's impossible, that's why some archers have binoculars or spotting scopes to have a look.


Nottingham archery club

Post 33

Laura

100? smiley - yikes They'd certainly need binoculars or something.


Nottingham archery club

Post 34

MaW

Yes... needless to say I don't do 100 yards...


Nottingham archery club

Post 35

Laura

Understandable, and seeing as I hardly ever make it to Sunday sessions, I don't see me shooting further than 40.


Nottingham archery club

Post 36

MaW

smiley - hug


Nottingham archery club

Post 37

Laura

smiley - smiley maybe I'll find a nice local archery club to shoot over the summer...


Nottingham archery club

Post 38

MaW

That would be a good idea.


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Post 39

Laura

That's what I thought. smiley - smiley


Nottingham archery club

Post 40

MaW

smiley - smiley

I have to pack now smiley - wah

I *hate* packing. It gets really tedious by the time you're halfway through the second year - that's if it wasn't already.


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