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There are several advantages to our plain text approach to document assembly. Here are a few:

•The learning curve much shallower. While there is syntax with which you have to become familiar, Pathagoras approach is undeniably simpler than the kind of field coding required by others.
•Because it is 'all Word, all the time', you don't have to worry about [Client Name LIKE THIS] signals the other programs demand. Instead of the additional coding, just directly make variable look like how you want it to appear in the document.  [CLIENT NAME] at the top of the document and [Client Name] in the document's body is just fine.
•Our initial and our final 'coding' is facial. That means you can see it in the source text at all times. If your Pathagorized document does not process correctly, you can 'see' on the face of the document what went wrong. You do not have to consult the ancillary files (where ever they may be) to edit the fields, convert and then reconvert the source text.

So 'Word-like' (here we are referring to Microsoft® Word) is the assembly process itself that if something goes wrong, you can simply press the Undo button on the assembled document. This lets you step backwards through  what Pathagoras did in assembling the document. This makes it very easy to uncover (albeit in reverse) what happened to your markups so you can correct the original if needed.

•'Plain text' means that you can 'Pathagorize' your source documents using a computer on which Pathagoras has not been installed! (Of course, to test your work, you will need a Pathagoras computer.)
•Any commercial document, document that you find on line, or document that you pick up at a continuing professional education class, that presents variables within variables is automatically a Pathagorized document.
•Perhaps most importantly, if you happen not to have the identical job in the office one year (or 10 years) from now, your successor has a fighting chance of figuring out what you have done.

 

All references to "Word" refer to Microsoft® Word, a product of the Microsoft® Corporation.