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- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Editing on Computer or Hardcopy
- Message-ID: <1992Sep01.225941.43654@datamark.co.nz>
- From: thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle)
- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 22:59:41 GMT
- Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
- Lines: 33
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- I used to say that I could never edit on a computer screen.
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- After a while, entering changes on paper and then transferring them to
- my essays got to be too much work. I started editing on screen, and
- actually found it quite easy.
-
- I now have another problem though...
-
- My EDI manual is nearly finished and I am reading the thing trying to
- fix the worst bits. The only problem is, if I do it on screen, I keep
- getting distracted by other bits of text.
-
- For example, if I move a chunk of text to another section and then
- see an error in that section, it is incredibly tempting to fix it then
- and there. Rereading the corrected bit I decide that I should rewrite
- it, and do so. This reminds me of another similar piece somewhere else
- so I copy the corrected text there.
-
- Of course by this time I have entirely lost the thread of what I am
- doing and I am now engaged in a general search and destroy mission
- across 100 pages of text.
-
- My new rules now is to print the thing out and then take it to another
- desk away from my computer... :-)
-
- I just posted this to see if anyone else had similar
- thoughts/feelings/whatever. Comments?
-
- (Hmmm. Too many commas in the above for me. :-)
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- Thomas Beagle | thomas@datamark.co.nz or | A beagle a day keeps
- Datamark Intl Ltd | thomas@cavebbs.welly.gen.nz | the doctor at bay.
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