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>Agreed. There is formatting by rule and there is formatting by eye. If you
>are formatting by eye, then you are necessarilly working by hand, but if you
>are formatting by rule, then a machine should be doing the donkey work.
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Mark,
No argument on who should do the donkey work; but at the point where markup is transformed from a bit of knowledge in the brain to a sequence of keystrokes executed by a spinal ganglion, errors occur. The value of wysiwyg is that it gives you immediate feedback to correct the keystrokes. When a couple of transposed markup characters can change a 300-word paragraph from 8/9 pt footnote style to 72 pt main title style, .... Well, let's just say it ain't pretty ;-)
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