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

From:Tristan <kesuari@...>
Date:Friday, June 13, 2003, 12:14
On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 21:45, BP Jonsson wrote:
> At 20:52 11.6.2003 -0700, Garth Wallace wrote: > >Subject: Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues) > >To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU > > > > > >Stone Gordonssen wrote: > >>>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. > >> > >> > >>This already exists in MS WORD. Maybe the unwillingness of writers to > >>use it > >>says more about the writers than the software. > > > >Actually, a lot of them may be using it without realizing it. At least, > >it used to be enabled by default. > > How does it work? Where do(es) the file(s) end up?
Within the file. What you see isn't everything stored in that multi-megabyte file, gosh no. Sure, the format mightn't be as efficient as it could be, but there is stuff in there you mightn't know about :) -- Tristan.