My question is why just ask for PL/1? Why not ask for COBOL and C/C++ and HLASM as well (i.e., a generally accessible library)? Quite parochial, only caring about your own preferred programming environment.
It really is not a very reasonable request, I agree. And I also agree that .ODF support would certainly be a better request than .docx support, but even that isn't very reasonable when you consider the practicalities of actually using it. IMHO most textual markup languages are just way too cumbersome to type in manually. I'd rather ship the (mixed case!) plain text off to another platform and script the conversion to the format of choice there, no manual intervention needed. The fact that the requestor is complaining about only having upper case text sent out is truly lazy and ludicrous in this day and age. Of course, I suspect the requestor also doesn't know how to use any scripting tools or even macro languages either, off-platform or on. What they are really asking for is a "magic wand" to do the transformation for them. Peter -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, March 18, 2016 11:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Friday, but not funny at all... <Snipped> > > Might as well mark your text up in the .docx format yourself no? > Yes, or maybe emit RTF encoded output from your PL/I program. MS Word can, so far, read such a beastie. This is for those who like "word processors" instead of "document processors". I'm in the later camp, personally. I use TeXstudio and LyX as my document creation, editing, and rendering tools of choice. When pushed, I use LibreOffice to work with MS formatted files. Except, of course, at work where I'm shackled to MS products. -- This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
