Skip to content

Commit

Permalink
removed "humanities"
Browse files Browse the repository at this point in the history
removed "humanities" as a descriptor to "scholars" just to make this a bit more generalizable (especially to teach for DRI) -- although this doesn't, I think, greatly change the meaning of the sentence
  • Loading branch information
kchatlosh committed Jan 13, 2019
1 parent e98b84e commit 732688f
Showing 1 changed file with 1 addition and 1 deletion.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion sections/text-editors.md
Expand Up @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

## What is text?

Before we explain which program we'll be using for editing text, we want to give a general sense of this "text" we keep mentioning. For those of us in the humanities, whether we follow literary theorists who read any object as a "text" or we dive into philology, paleography, codicology or any of the fields [David Greetham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greetham_(textual_scholar)) lays out in *Textual Scholarship*, "text" has its specific meanings. As humanities scholars working with computers, we need to be aware of the ways plain text and formatted text differ. Words on a screen may have hidden formatting. Many of us grew up using Microsoft Word and don't realize how much is going on behind the words shown on the screen. For the purposes of communicating with the computer and for easier movement between different programs, we need to use text without hidden formatting.
Before we explain which program we'll be using for editing text, we want to give a general sense of this "text" we keep mentioning. For those of us in the humanities, whether we follow literary theorists who read any object as a "text" or we dive into philology, paleography, codicology or any of the fields [David Greetham](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Greetham_(textual_scholar)) lays out in *Textual Scholarship*, "text" has its specific meanings. As scholars working with computers, we need to be aware of the ways plain text and formatted text differ. Words on a screen may have hidden formatting. Many of us grew up using Microsoft Word and don't realize how much is going on behind the words shown on the screen. For the purposes of communicating with the computer and for easier movement between different programs, we need to use text without hidden formatting.

![Word Doc](worddoc.png)

Expand Down

0 comments on commit 732688f

Please sign in to comment.