Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3627 mails)

[Rick Green <rtg@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Rachel Greenham wrote:

> 
> 
> Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> >* bilbo <bilbo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [Jun 15. 2001 14:42]:
> >
> >>>>I'm currently dealing with the following problem: I have a
> >>>>document I'm going to be creating that I have to distribute
> >>>>to a number of people, most of whom aren't particularly
> >>>>technically oriented and (I have to assume) aren't using
> >>>>Linux and aren't going to.   I hate to resort to using an MS
> >>>>Word file, but I really see no practical alternative.   (No,
> >>>>I'm not going to go down in flames as  a Linux evangelist in
> >>>>this context.)
> >>>>
> >>>PDF
> >>>
> >>I would suggest HTML.
> >>
> >
> >How about LaTeX/.dvi?
> >
> How many non-geeks are going to have a dvi viewer on their Windows box? 
> The aim is to establish a good lingua franca.
> 
> 
 I would suggest RTF.  It's writable and readable by every office package
I know of.

-- 
Rick Green

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   ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"