>Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere? That

>Don't lawyers have effective ways to include and reference things, create standard definitions and procedures without pasting the same stuff everywhere? That could actually turn out to be worse. Take a look at a lot of federal bills. They're written like: 'In 8 USC 552(b)(ii) strike the word "foo" and insert "bar baz"' You then have to go cross reference everything for every line. It's a nightmare. If the bill was written in a computer readable diff format instead, that could be better.