> > > Perhaps you could do a paper on the ridiculousness of **requiring** > > > submissions in a proprietary, unpublished format.
As a practical point, I would nowadays write a paper on the benefits of not requiring it so, and mention the disadvantages in the latter part of it. Very few people like to be told they are ridiculous and it commonly does not result in a meeting of minds. Incongruity might be a reasonable word to work in, but even that probably isn't justifiable in their terms, yet. > Probably, but it is nothing short of shameful that a US medical > informatics society insists that the rest of the global medical > informatics community use US software which has to be paid for in US > dollars merely to make a paper submission. Apart from violating every > principle of promoting open data formats, it is a prejudicial against > those who cannot afford or otherwise choose not to use MS Word (or other > Microsoft products). Hey - that is history! Open Office can write .doc format I just send people text or rtf and they open it in whatever they are using and are none the wiser, commonly. -- From the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
