On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:00:12 +0300, <[email protected]> wrote:
The only electronic format that makes any sense to me is PDF, since it's portable and reliable. I can't fathom why any institution would require a proprietary format.
PDF, or specifically, the Adobe PDF implementation, was only released from its proprietary status on July 1, 2008.
AT&T's DjVu is, and has always been, an open format, and in many image rich files, may be superior to PDF for its impressive compression.
In the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering, the TeX-generated DVI file is a defacto publishing standard, TeX is free and open source software and although under copyright, its author, Donald Knuth considers it to be in the public domain. While it is possible to generate PDF output directly from a DVI file, a DVI file is an excellent stand-alone format. The TeX package is particularly well-suited to desktop publishing in maths and other fields using extensive formulae; I suspect that it would be equally well-suited to texts in musicology or music theory, but am not aware of anyone not coming directly from a day job in the sciences or in the narrow field of academic computer music who has published on a musical topic with TeX. Does anyone know of any publishing integrating Finale output in a TeX document, for example?
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