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There's a lot of unprofessional behavior and software practices in the "professional" publishing field. Many authors refuse to write in anything but MS Word, a
by dublinben 12y ago
There's a lot of unprofessional behavior and software practices in the "professional" publishing field. Many authors refuse to write in anything but MS Word, and companies rely on Track Changes for version control of manuscripts.
- cwyers 12y agoWhy is that unprofessional?
- FireBeyond 12y agoI'm definitely not an everyday user of Track Changes, but isn't that the very use case for it, version control inside a manuscript? The biggest caveat I've seen to its use are ballooning file sizes (meh), and (more importantly) leaking information. But I also thought recent versions of Word made it more prominent to discard tracking information when doing a Save/As.