Gareth Owen wrote:
IMHO
there's far too much talk about letting the software do all the work
lately ...
Is that not what software is for?
Yes, but I've been giving a lot of thought to LDC's remarks the other
day about what computers are good at, and what they are not good at.
One thing they are not good at is conceptual relationships, etc.
The exact proposal you guys are talking about is fairly minor, and I
can see it going either way. But in general, I think we should be
wary of taking control away from the user. Maybe a user wants to have
part of a word linked (even if we might think it is ugly), for a good
reason.
Why remove that option? For convenience in other cases. It's a
tradeoff, and perhaps we should be reluctant to make tradeoffs for
convenience that take choices away from authors.
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