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On 27/02/2011 3:52 PM, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
> On 2011-02-27 06:21:08 +0000, Cthun said:
>
>> Oh, really? I for one cannot recall ever seeing a version 1.5 of a
>> novel or a version 2.0 of a magazine article.
>
> Even if there's only one published version, which is not always the
> case, revision control can be useful for the development of natural
> language texts, of any kind. Why do you think virtually every modern
> word processor supports revision tracking?

What word processors do is very different from what tools like CVS do 
that are designed specifically for computer source code.