Re: Tinker WriterDeck

On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:22:51 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:
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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.

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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.