Dan York
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:29:00 -0700
Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > The one format that meets all these qualifications is WordPerfect. It's > the one paper format for anyone in the Linux community can download a > reading *and editing* tool. > > I use WP as my word-processor of choice. Dan now absolutely loves it, > he said so himself :-) (http://lwn.net/daily/lwn3/lwn3.html) Yes, I do like it... but have not started using it because of the large body of documents I already have in Applixware. > Considering that we *all* can download WordPerfect for Linux at no cost, > the products is well-known worldwide, that its format is easily importable > into MS-Word, is there any reason *not* to use this as our standard > "paper" format? Uhh.. yes! While I understand that WP is importable into *most* word processors, it is not into all. On the other hand, there are other formats such as Microsoft's Rich Text Format which, because of the near-monopoly of Microsoft Office, is now readable by pretty much any word processing or desktop publishing format on the planet. The goal is to make it **easy** for people. I'm not 100% convinced that putting the files out there as WP is the answer... but I'm willing to listen. Regards, Dan -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dan York, Certification Program Manager, Linuxcare, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxcare.com/ 415-740-4519 mobile, 603-268-0691 tel, 603-268-0103 fax Linuxcare. At the center of Linux. -------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________________ This message was sent by the linux-cert-pr mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail -s '' [EMAIL PROTECTED]