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Re: coaxing scientists to use cvs
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LEE Sau Dan |
Subject: |
Re: coaxing scientists to use cvs |
Date: |
13 Jul 2004 22:27:16 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
>>>>> "marko" == marko <address@hidden> writes:
>> my strategy is: never refill/reformat existing paragraphs.
>> This strategy has the advantage that the diffs reflect better
>> the logical units that I'm changing.
marko> True. I did the same also, but you may end up with pretty
marko> scattered pieces of text if you change your sources very
marko> often over time. The sources readability itself
marko> deminishes... But I guess that's the only chance though...
I read my LaTeX text more often in the xdvi or gv windows than in the
Emacs window, esp. for formulae and tables. (The preview-latex
package for Emacs has changed this habit a little bit!)
Anyway, I don't find the resulting ASCII text file that bad. It's no
more scattered pieces of text than a filled paragraph. It's just not
filling the paragraph into a minimal number of lines. But since the
logical units are more clearly marked by EOL, it does help reading and
maintaining the LaTeX source.
marko> I understand your boss, my bosses acted exactly the same
marko> way, so that I had to do all the updating myself and find
marko> their changes and handle the cases they didn't use the most
marko> up-to-date versions... ;) neverending story.... ;) Happens
marko> all the time! :)
It's just annoying that they don't listen to our complaints.
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Lee Sau Dan 李守敦 address@hidden
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Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee