[Simh] Simh Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15

[Ghost Wolf]

Toby Thain skrev:
> 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
>   
While keeping the human readable part but with some formatting and that
becomes HTML. Witch is readable on any of the plausible host platforms
and even on a couple of the targets. I would opt for a clean HTML 3 or
even 2 one file system containing index links and return to index links.

My 2 öre
  Pär
>> /Andreas
>>
>> -- 
>> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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