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- From: bf455@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Bonita Kale)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Editing on Computer or Hardcopy
- Date: 5 Sep 1992 10:44:09 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- References: <1992Sep4.172549.16782@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Sep01.225941.43654@datamark.co.nz> <1992Sep2.180831.25822@gallant.apple.com>
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- In a previous article, curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin) says:
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- >In article <1992Sep2.180831.25822@gallant.apple.com> chuq@gallant.apple.com (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
- >>thomas@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Beagle) writes:
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- >>>I used to say that I could never edit on a computer screen.
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- >>On a psychological level, you're only seeing small chunks of the text.
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- >Get a bigger monitor and an editor that does columns right.
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- >With a good 17" monitor you can fit more text on a screen than
- >a piece of paper. It costs a heap, but it's worth it.
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- This could be a help, but not enough of one, I think. I usually edit all I
- can onscreen. Then I print it out and find out what I missed. (But I
- usually go through the printout(s) several times, too.)
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- Seems to me the eye movements for reading onscreen are so different from
- those for reading on paper that you lose the feeling of naturalness
- or comfortableness you're striving for. The whole thing is uncomfortable,
- so you are (or at least, I am) less likely to notice the little jolt of a
- mistake or an awkwardness.
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- However, if there's any amount of rewriting to be done--if anything
- as large as a paragraph, or even a long sentence, needs recasting--I just
- mark "recast" in the margin. Then I take care of it when I'm back
- onscreen, because I have an awful time doing actual writing by hand.
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- Bonita Kale
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