[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15
Toby Thain
toby at smartgames.ca
Fri Aug 31 08:11:26 EDT 2007
On 30-Aug-07, at 11:15 PM, Andreas Davour wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Bob Supnik wrote:
>
>> My goodness! So many suggestions, I hardly know how to deal with
>> them all...
>>
>> 4. Documentation files
>>
>> PDF format is universally readable. The alternative would be Word
>> (the actual document source format).
>
> I disagree about the "universally readable" bit (after trying to
> read a
> pdf1.5 document in a perfectly ordinary working pdf reader, a few
> years
> old), but the alternative would be terrible! If you don't want to go
> back to text, for all that is holy don't publish in Word format!
I don't think anyone would seriously suggest such a thing.
I agree with Peter that a revisable, diff-able text format is optimal.
--Toby
>
> /Andreas
>
> --
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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> A: Top-posting.
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