On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:01:24PM -0500, Cowboy wrote: > > HTML is EVIL in any context except a web page. ( IMHO )
And even there :) > How about text ? > It's 100% compatible with anything. That's true, and text is a good choice for small snippets like READMEs etc. However, you can barely convert it to anything useful, because it contains no structure information (meta info about the type of information a particlar part of a text is carrying). For example, if you have a broader terminal (width 100 instead 80), as I do, you can't rearrange the text to fill the free space. You are limited to 78 columns on all displays. This said, texinfo converted to info format has the same problem :) But at least the original texinfo forma can be converted to fit the type of display (printer, text, ...) you need. > ( of course, my favorite editor is still vi so anything containing > specialized formating ala MS-Word is a huge pain. ) I truly hope I will never see a *.doc ument containing a Hurd manual :) Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
