On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:56:49PM -0400, Doug Franklin scripsit: > Independent of any of that stuff, if you want people to be able to > easily view them decades from now, print them. So far, paper is > universal. I know of no digital format that can make that claim with a > straight face, and I won't believe it anyway until the format has been > around and interchangeable for two or three or seven decades, minimum, > at which point I'll likely be long dead. :-)
Well, coming up on 4 decades, we have roff, and all its various -- nroff, troff, groff -- descendants. The examples in the original Bell Labs papers work with current shipping open source groff. Of course, that's not an image format, so it does a photographer little good, but this _has_ been done. -- Graydon, who should probably point out that he knows Unix man pages are not what most people think of if they can help it. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
