[R-390] Y2K Reprinting

Jim Shorney jshorney at inebraska.com
Mon Jun 25 10:15:23 EDT 2007


On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 07:38:20 -0400, Bob Camp wrote:


>Like it or not MS Word is a pretty common format. It's what pretty  
>much everybody has on their desktop in one form or another.  Keeping  
>one version in something like that makes sense.


I've got four "desktops" in this room that see regular use, and not one of
them has Word.  


>To me the question is - what else? MS Word is headed off to XML  
>format. Having the manual in a HTML like format probably makes sense.  
>That would be doubly true for putting the manual up for online browsing.


HTML/XML still has too many "warts".  PDF is a mature format, and a well-done
PDF document looks *very* good.  







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