On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> 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.
Good point.
> > 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.
Well, there are people with hardware which makes no fun running OpenOffice.
So using an Editor of choice to edit plain HTML has an aditional advantage.
Kind regards
Andreas.
