To try and explain what I'd like to find (which I had thought not readily doable in a sound-bite), I posted a rather lengthy question earlier today that was closed for being off-topic. One person suggested that I 

> distill down your question to something answerable without giving us your life story. Focus on a technical aspect of the software. 

which [I think I've now done][1], and I'd like to see it reopened if the only problem was the length.

I realize that it's certainly a [tag:software-rec] question which I saw [another post on meta][2] about. That author tried to make their question less "software-reccy" and thereby got it reopened. I'm not sure if I've made my question any less "software-reccy" as after all, I am indeed looking for software recommendations.  However, I have made the question less lengthy. Does it qualify for reopening now? Or are all [tag:software-rec] questions somehow implicitly off-topic here?


  [1]: http://superuser.com/questions/600447/software-to-assemble-text-fragments-into-one-long-document
  [2]: https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6819/request-to-reopen-question-600238