Making online reading/editing easier (was Online vs paper-based editing)

[Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca>]

Peter Neilson notes: <<I use both methods. The on-line document is  
amenable to searching for particular bad constructions and  
misspellings that won't show up in MS-Wrod's checking software. But  
the dead tree has not died in vain-- badness that was invisible for  
weeks on the screen leaps from the printed copy.>>

As I note in my book, I'm not a fascist about onscreen editing. Use  
it for the things it does well for you, and use paper for the things  
it does better -- this varies widely among editors.

<<Also, I can hand a printed copy to a boss who never bothers with on- 
line stuff (he has people to deal with computers, so he doesn't have  
to)>>

Really? I thought these folks all died out back in the Jurassic!  
Maybe we should set up a nature reserve or something before they go  
extinct again. <g>


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