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From: Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu>
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Subject: Re: Tinker WriterDeck
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2025 20:47:13 -0300
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> 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.