Re: Word Processors

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

So we're talking about the way formatting garbage can corrupt the
usefulness of the data, in spite of it being a naively well-meaning
feature?  Definitely something to watch out for.

John


Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> John R Sheets writes:
> 
>  >
>  > >'Creativity' that means waste of
>  > > money crippling of assumed benefits of computers in a corporate
>  > > environment (hard to index and search such documents for example).
>  >
>  > I'm not sure what you mean here.
> 
>  Think in terms of Outline Mode in Emacs/XEmacs.  When we converted
> text to hypertext, you could look at levels of headers in an index,
> could have the TOC show headers and have them as jumpable links.
> 
>       If levels aren't defined, you don't have anything to go on.
> Arial 18 isn't equivalent to Times New Roman 18 unless you define both
> of them as Header 1, say.
> 
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> Rebecca Ore
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