Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> Stone Gordonssen scripsit:
>
> > One of the big issues today is that, with the usage of computers to
> create
> > dovcuments, there will be no rough drafts from which oine can learn
> the
> > changes in an author's perspective as he/she developed a story.
>
> That's a matter of needing better software for writers that does for
> them
> what source-code control systems do for programmers -- preserve every
> draft, every variant, every accepted and rejected word or phrase.
I don't think I'd use such if I were an author - if I reject something, I
don't want someone else to dig it up after my death and build grand theories
on it!

                                                              Andreas

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