On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 01:24:42PM +0100, adrian.wells wrote:
Mmmm, remember my comments about word being a world class piece of software? Used by nearly everyone? The ideal way to disseminate documents.
You all booed and shouted! :-) Did I return fire? - No! I just waited :-)
I still boo and shout. It's a proprietry format which requires you to have proprietry tools to produce it (quite apart from it being horrid). It is very far from being the ideal way to disseminate documentation. There are any number of acceptable open formats - ascii, html, PS, PDF which can be produced by freely available applications. It sort of beggars belief that anybody should post a .doc file to a mailing list primarily concerned with the use of open software.
Thanks Malcolm! Regarding OSE too, Whoops!
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