(S)Coping with Mira - WWYD?

[Laura Boyd]

I'm very sorry to have just now sent a message to everybody in this group. I meant to start a discussion thread right here.

Apologies for the intrusion. The thread should read:

Reporters, when you scope your own job written on a Mira and it's full of stacking, how do you work around that after the fact to effect the quickest scoping?

Do you J-define every stack as you come to it? Do you E-define the stacks and separated strokes when no format symbol is involved (like answer bank)? Do you D-define any stacks during the job or later and actually put them in your main dictionary?

I'm a student scoping a job for a Mira reporter. There's a ton of stacks, and after reading these threads, I believe it when the reporter said the stacking started with purchase of the Mira. I'd like to scope more jobs for this reporter and would appreciate any recommendations for best way to handle the editing and contribute to main dictionary, if the problem can't be prevented on the writing end.

Thanks for your help, everyone!

Laura