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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Tinker WriterDeck
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> 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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