Re: Minimizing length of a document

There really is software lengthening ("enriching") a document,
WhiteSmoke.


On Dec 6, 5:22 am, "Proginoskes" <CCHeck...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Booted Cat wrote:
Has anyone heard of software that can shorten a document's length?

For example, the above sentence can be shortened to: "Is there document
shortener software?" A 55% reduction in size.

This would certainly be a productivity booster (a 120% increase),
without semantic loss of content. Excessive content is the real time
killer; but since the author has a reason to write it and does write
it, the burden goes to the reader; it becomes the responsibility of the
reader to selectively read portions of a document.

The author is the one most unwilling to cut a document, unless he has
to pay proportionally to the word count. But it's a publisher's market:
everyone is free to publish a message and you're the one to blame for
spending the time reading bull***.That reminds me of a Dilbert cartoon where the Pointy Haired Boss asked
Dilbert to turn a 1-page report into a 2-page "executive summary".

--- Christopher Heckman

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