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Subject: wysiwyg - short comment
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Date: 26 Sep 88 19:11:41 GMT
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>If I had decided to do a critical redesign (three column instead of two, or
>something like that) it would have required a massive amount of work. But
>anyone who's silly enough to lay out 40 pages of text and THEN make that
>radical a change deserves it. That's why they invented dummies, design specs
>and prototypes.

We often have people here who have written a paper for internal use and
later submit it to a conference, then even later perhaps, to a journal.
Such changes , i.e. one to two column output, or not uncommon. This
situation occurs more often than you think.

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