Just a minor addition: LaTeX documents, and the resulting PDF output, are actually fairly common on the Internet, as it is arguably the most used document format in real academia.
On 16 May 2012 09:34, Okello <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2012 14:30:37 Peter C. Ndikuwera wrote: > > > But don't you see that this is the big problem? You want to force users > to > > change how they work to suit how you develop. > > I'm tryin to get results at the least costs. > > > (And isn't MS's XML format > > published as well? I hesitate to say "open") > > The problem is it's transiency. Microsoft tends to add "features" (and > change > them as well). They do not managed to to make a open standard of it, and > that > tells a lot regarding the power of Microsoft in the business. > > > Are you going to convince the standard idiot user who uses Word that they > > have to save as ODF? What about the 3000 documents he has on his hard > disk > > that are in Word (and that open in just about every version of Word since > > Word XP [albeit with the Office 2007 addin]) How many ODF documents do > you > > estimate fly around the web? > > How many Word93 Documents fly around the web? Users are trapped in it, that > true, and to make odf the standard company format needs a decision from the > top. Those decision makers can somtimes barely distinguish a pc from a > washing machine, never learned to calculate the operation costs of a IT > landscape. > > > Same for Latex. > > Not really, as Latex documets tend to be published as pdf documents on the > net. There is a notable count of pdf documents on the net. On the other > hand, > even when the LaTeX format is more sustaining then office formats, to use > it > in a commercial environment i would call a "interesting academic study". > > > German => Polish is a bit of a silly example. US English Libre Office > can't > > open US English Word Document. > > Word freezes Windows while opening a word document is not a silly example > but > a very serious problem. To make it more clear: imagine windows freezing > while > u try in Kampala to open a word document sent to u from Mbarara, created > with > the very same release of word, just created using the Runyankole version > while u try to open it using the Luganda version. That how u have to see > that. Data exchange over a border in Europe using Microsoft software became > tricky with Windows95, it eased with the time, but is still not always > trivial. > > Okello > > -- > Separating code and design in websites http://www.uHTML.info > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. >
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