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   Ethan Carter to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Tinker WriterDeck   
   26 Apr 25 20:47:13   
   
   From: ec1828@somewhere.edu   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  writes:   
      
   > On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:22:51 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:   
   >   
   >> There's a paper by Leslie Lamport that says that a document should be   
   >> /logically/ structured.  That's paper 76 on his list on his homepage.   
   >> Although he seems more concerned with mathematical papers, most of the   
   >> ideas surely apply to everything else.   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   In other words, they suck.   
      
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