"Andrew" == Andrew Sly <sly@victoria.tc.ca> writes:
Andrew> Are you sure you have phrased that in the way you wanted? Andrew> At no point in the history of DP was the output of the Andrew> rounds "strung together and handed directly off to PG". I Andrew> cannot recall if the name of "post-processor" has always Andrew> been used--but there has always been someone in that role. When I started at DP, in 2002, the work needed to pass from the R2 output to posting to PG was officially estimated in 30 minutes, without any specialized tool. I think that "strung together and handed directly off to PG" is a correct metaphor for 30 minutes of work. Enough to remove the separators, reflow the line ends, and that was all. No formatting (italics converted to uppercase for ship names), accents removed, no spell-checking, no gutcheck. This was a task of the project manager, and handing the task to somebody else was exceptional. Of course, even then, it took to me much longer to complete a book, since I used to re-read the book to catch a bunch of remaining errors. Carlo