[FM Discuss] proofread workflow

[Lachlan Musicman]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 08:22, Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> anyhoo, global "search & replace" sounds like something very useful
>> and it is not that big problem to implement it. please explain all
>> your needs as much as possible and i will see what i can do about it
>
> As is usual, we will need a fully automatic version of search and
> replace, and one that goes through the instances one at a time,
> allowing the editor to decide individually which to change. We don't,
> for example, want to have a glossary item for one term to be changed
> to the other that the entry is meant to refer to. Otherwise you get
>
> Recursion, see Recursion.
>
> when you don't mean the joke.

Also to be careful to only change the current revision - while it will
make older revisions "incorrect", we do not want to start down the
path of re-writing history.

cheers
L.

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