On 8 Sep 2003, Tim Cook wrote:
> > I understand the need of post editing things authors sended. But what about
> > plain HTML. It can be read by Word for post processing and authors are able
> > to use any editor of choice. Some people will even have problems to export
> > RTF sanely.
>
> Granted RTF isn't perfect. HTML isn't very friendly to formatting for
> printing though.
For sure - but the argument was that a common layout should be accomplished
by post editing this stuff. So HTML can be read by their favourite word
processing programm and will be formatted this way. When I sendet my paper
to LinuxTag they explicitely asked for concentrationg only on the contents
and do no formatting at all. Isn't it the *contents* people want to present???
If all authors would have to stick to a defined set of simple HTML tags
the publishers of the proceedings would have less work.
Kind regards
Andreas.
