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by cratermoon 1755 days ago
In the late 80s I was working at an academic institution, and personal computers were still mostly the domain of nerds. One person I remember didn't know any other program except Lotus 1-2-3. But she used to write entire letters and documents as spreadsheets, with all the text in one gigantic cell. The only thing I found impressive about that was that the program didn't crash when it hit 65,535 letters in a cell.
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That's one benefit of Zeminary over other word processors.

You can edit a paragraph without shifting the whole text.

It gets really useful when you have to write a book or thesis or movie script. Anything very long really.

Something I noticed working with the JS editor in Zeminary was that the load time increased exponentially with more and more text and formatting.

So chunking it helped to offset that problem. I don't know if Word has that problem. But I know I can load the Zeminary equivalent of a 100k words formatted Word file in about 5% or 10% the time.