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

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 :)

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Tristan.