Noong Mar, Okt 10, 2006 ng 05:20:50PM +0800, sinabi ni Rom Feria: > In as much as plain ASCII text is preferred, documents require some > formatting, which is quite difficult to achieve using plain ASCII > text. ODF is still the way to go.
ODF is yet another format, though admittedly more "open", it is still a layer of complexity above plain text. Actually, it shouldn't even be _ASCII_ text, but plain text in an encoding that supports our full character set. What I am driving at is that plain text, at the minimum, should be a required format in which public documents should be made available, sans formatting, in order that the content of the document is accessible immediately and by anyone without any cruft to deal with. The verbiage of a lot of these are enough dross to get through. -- ___ Eric Pareja (xenos AT upm.edu.ph) | Information Management Service [IMS] \e/ Network and Systems Administrator | University of the Philippines Manila _v_ [ http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos ][GPG: 0xB82E42D9][Reg. Linux User #8159] "Ang hindi marunong magmahal ng sariling wika ay higit pa sa malansang isda."
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