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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: Enscript
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:42:29 -0400
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Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:09:01 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> Sometimes it's easier, when going through a big script, to have the print
>> out to mark up as one makes the script work. Then later apply the fixes to the
>> file.
>
> That's the same old excuse.
>
> It seems that you haven't gotten fully accustomed to the digital way
> of doing things.

There is no "digital way". It's doing some light editing or thinking on a pad
of paper or doing the same on a (heavier) tablet. One hand versus two hands.
But otherwise an isomorphic paradigm.

> There are ways, if only totally ad hoc, of doing the same with text
> editors. 

It's difficult to draw arrows across a page, or draw a little diagram, in a
text editor.

Editing a printout on paper rather than editing in a text editor in a laptop is
a lot easier when sitting on the crapper. Or at the doctor's office.

> In my opinion, there should NEVER be a need to rise up from ones chair
> to peruse a ridiculous print.

No wonder your ass is so ponderous! :-D  Get up off it and stand! Isn't your
fitness watch telling you that?

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