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I suppose, but formatting the same text multiple
times for different outputs is not exactly what I
would call "writing content," nor is it something
I particularly "enjoy."
As someone who continues to be somewhat nostalgic for
the days when we used to spend our time working with
product to generate content and send raw text to
production people for formatting and page design,
I would see a truly effective "roboformatter" as
a benefit that would free me to spend more time
finding, organizing and writing information. Beats
me how anyone could see spending their time on that
as "confining yourself to single-function cog-ness."
At the risk of reigniting yet another "font fondler"
exchange, this sounds more to me like the attitude
I'd expect from someone who thinks their primary
value as a writer is taking input from other people
and making it "look good."
Gene Kim-Eng
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On Tue, 18 May 2004 12:05:56 -0400 Mailing List wrote:
It might be as simple as:
SOME people (while not the world's best) are reasonably
good at writing content, and reasonably good at making
it look the way it should, and they've been doing both
for years.
Suddenly, you want to take away part of their jobs,
a part that they might have enjoyed. "You are a cog.
We have other specialist cogs who do what you formerly
did. Confine yourself to single-function cog-ness,
and like it. Have a nice day."
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