Am Dienstag 29 Mai 2007 18:21 schrieb Lindsay Haisley:
> On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 12:01 -0400, Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> > > The resulting document uses a Courier non-prop. font and I'd like to be
> > > able to print it to a text file _just as it looks_ and preserve all the
> > > indentation, centering and justification.  Seems like just about any
> > > format I save it to, however (HTML, RTF, text) loses these features and
> > > I'll have another job ahead of me re-formatting everything again in vim
> > > or some other text editor.  This can be done, but I'm wondering if
> > > there's any way to get text output from OpenOffice that's truer to the
> > > original appearance.
> >
> > Is there some reason you can't save it as a text (or RTF, or
> > opendocument) file?  I've imported from obscure wordprocessors before,
> > and saved as normal files fine.
>
> I can leave it in any one of a number of formats.  I've created ps, pdf
> and odf files which are properly formatted (rtf is not).  My thinking is
> that this is archival material and if I'm going to submit it to an
> archive site, plain ASCII text is a lot more likely to be easily read
> and understood 20 years from now than is a more complex format.
>
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Isn't TeX / LaTeX used for this purpose. As the de facto standard for more 
than 15 years I don't think it will change anytime soon.

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