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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..081a16dd14d --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/skb/user-guide/repository/story/long.tex @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +\opt{text}{\skbheading{The Long Story}} +\opt{note}{\skbheading{The Long Story, Part I}} + +Over several years of writing documents (articles, books, reports, standards, research proposals) +ideas and concepts became distributed (actually a euphemism for 'hidden') within many many documents +(in all sorts of formats) located at many many locations (such as local file system, document management +system, subversion/perforce systems, web servers, email clients). The problems associated to this situation +are manifold: +\begin{skbnotelist} + \item Ideas/concepts are hidden, often un-accessible and, as I experienced, search tools are of limited help. + \item The documents are written in all sorts of formats or available only in (usually proprietary) binary + formats. Ever tried to open a document written in MS WinWord 6.0 with customised document + template in a newer version of the same programme? You know then what I am talking about. + \item Reusing the ideas/concepts, once found in a document and managed to open that very document, + usually involves huge amount of re-formatting. This will produce mistakes. Ever tried to + use a {\scshape Bib}\TeX) generated reference list, found in a PDF file in a new article? + I found better ways to spend my nights and weekends (yes, I am married and I have a garden). + \item Over time, it can become very difficult to distinguish between different versions of a + document, concept and/or idea. As it happens in real life, things move on even in computing + and the related sciences. Documents are written for a specific historic context, which might + but often will not appear in their abstract (or the name of the folder their are stored in). + \item The above issues do apply to figures and presentations as much as to the text part of + documents. Reorganising my documents/figures/presentations I did find way too many duplicates. + I have used too many graphic software packages in the past 10 years which don't exist + anymore, or which do not run on the latest version of my preferred operating system. Some of + the figures are only available in some sort of low-resolution bitmap, rendering them useless + even for a non-peer-reviewed article today (the original source got 'lost', in most cases + because someone removed the project folder after the project was terminated). +\end{skbnotelist} + +\opt{text}{\skbinput[from=rep]{story/long2}}
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