From: David Chart (linux@dchart.demon.co.uk)
Date: Fri May 17 2002 - 16:52:01 EDT
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 21:09, Randy Kramer wrote:
> David Chart wrote:
> > Thus, if reviser 1 deletes a sentence, reviser 2 stets it,
>
> Thanks, I learned a new word.
>
Warning: 'stet' is Latin for 'let it stand', and is what you write in
the margin to over-ride a copy editor's changes. 'To stet' is thus a bit
of a bastard hybrid, and therefore ideally suited to English.
> > And, of course, if you save a document with revision information not
> > currently displayed, Abi will warn you (by default). We've all heard the
> > Word horror stories, right?
>
> I guess not those particular ones. Does the revision information get
> deleted? (Never happened to me, IIRC.)
No, it gets left in. And then you send the file to your negotiating
partner, who turns revision marking on and gets to see the earlier
version of your negotiating positions, or the negative stuff about their
company that was in the pitch to their competitor, or whatever.
Actually, the annotations get left in as well, which is even worse.
There's a net legend about comments on a contract clause saying
something like "This will really screw them over. Can we get away with
it? -- Bob. Yeah, they'll never notice. -- Edmund Blackadder. What a
cunning plan. -- Baldric."
We should be nice and warn the user about invisible data, but have a
preference for turning the warning off, I think.
-- David Chart
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