At 05:36 PM 2/15/01 -0600, Sam TH wrote: >Also to concur with your other email: reveal codes is useful for >fixing problem caused by formatting instructions that you thought you >got rid of, but really didn't. Or other such cruft that the word >processor thought needed to be there, but you really didn't want. > >Sure, it would be great if this never happened in Abi. And I've never >actually needed to look at the source of an Abi document to fix a >problem in the document that I would have used reveal codes for. But >I highly doubt it won't be useful someday. OK. Sounds like we all understand each other. My contention is that any "such cruft" is a bug that should be fixed directly. Period. I just purely *hate* the idea of designing a feature into our UI whose sole reason for existing is that we screwed something else up. Broken by design was never what I was shooting for. To the many people who believe that we may need these feature "someday", all I ask is that you *wait* to implement this until: - that someday really arrives, and - we agree that there is no "real" fix for the underlying problem. Anything less just feels like giving up. Paul, absolutist
