On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:13:55PM +0300, Etzion Bar-Noy wrote: > Hi. > I love those with the flare in their eyes, and their self-righteousness. The > majority of the crowd, in Israel especially, will not be able to read ODT. > Since PDF is good enough format, those who did not "bother" to read your > document were, well, so filled with their hatred that they forgot the goal - > reach maximum newbies, both on Linux and on Windows.
The majority of the users in Israel should be able to read PDF and/or HTML. Both of those exports work fine from OO.o . > > Since probably all of this mailing list members use OpenOffice, and since > this program has been known to open DOC format for the last, say, seven > years (with variable levels of accuracy), the DOC and PDF formats would be > fine for all your customers. The self-righteousness are probably not your > crowd. If the author hopes to get any help in actual editing from others, then using MS-Word format makes it much less available for the majority of the potential contributors. If the author does not want any "patches" - the actual format is meaningless. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [email protected] | | best [email protected] | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
