[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15

[Toby Thain]

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
>
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