PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

DEFINEREGION
TEDIT Commands
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This area of text
is the region.
Cursor position when
you give the
DEFINEREGION
command. This is the
region boundary at
one end of the region.
Editing is the process by which you examine material on its own
terms (either in its original form or at a later stage). You
question the material on the grounds of:
Accuracy
Clarity
Coherence
Effectiveness
You move the cursor
here. This is the other
end of the region.
When you encounter problems, you resolve the ones you are
equipped (and authorized) to handle, and you refer the other
problems to the author of the original material.
Ideally, editing should be done on the original material so that
all problems of substance, grammar, style, and form are resolved
before a copy is released in "final form." However, it would be
a mistake to read the final copy merely as a mechanical
proofreader you should not assume that the original is perfect
and that you need only to look for places where the copy deviates
from the original. Since problems may have gone undetected in
the earlier editing, you need to read the final copy in a
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.
After you use a text command with REGION (other than BACKWARD or
FORWARD), the region boundary is no longer defined. Use
DEFINEREGION again to establish a new region boundary.
Tips
Use the FORWARD REGION or BACKWARD REGION command to
verify the location of the other end of the region. These two commands
have identical functions.