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   Scott Dorsey to ldo@nz.invalid   
   Re: Tinker WriterDeck   
   23 Apr 25 15:31:14   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >   
   >A key thing I find with plain-text-plus-markup is that it can be put into   
   >version-control systems and managed collaboratively, just like program   
   >source code. WYSIWYG document processors may have change tracking, but   
   >they're invariably pretty primitive compared to the branching and merging   
   >capabilities of a modern VCS like Git.   
      
   For LaTeX and TeX documents, Overleaf does this nicely and has other   
   document-specific services in addition to those of git or svn.   
   --scott   
      
   --scott   
      
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