The paragraph that decides,
not the document that mentions it.
The documents handler reads a file whole and keeps what the format carries: headings, tables, footnotes, tracked revisions and the properties that date it. A finding cites a paragraph, not a filename.
LLX-HANDLER-DOC · R4 · 12 formats
Four things a text dump loses.
Structure
Headings, lists and tables are read as structure, so a clause can be located as “clause 14.2”, not as an offset into a wall of text.
Tracked revisions
Insertions, deletions and their authors are read where the format records them — often the only evidence of who changed what, and when.
Footnotes and comments
Marginal text is read as text, attached to the passage it annotates instead of dropped or appended at the end.
Document properties
Author, created and modified dates, template and revision number are read as fields, and place the file in the chronology.
The questions correspondence usually decides.
Who said what, and when
A statement is cited to its paragraph, with the document’s own date and author properties beside it.
ChronologyWhich version was relied on
Two drafts of one document are compared paragraph by paragraph, with the tracked changes read rather than inferred.
Version diffWhether a clause was ever varied
Every occurrence of a clause across the corpus is retrieved with its context, so a variation cannot hide in a covering letter.
ContractRead in place, in the format it arrived in.
The file is never converted or re-saved. It is read where it lies, and the handler records a SHA-512 of the bytes it read — so a passage cited today can be replayed against the same file years from now.