Document formats (was: To the keepers of the holy grail of Open Source)

2001-01-23 Thread Rick Moen
begin Bryan George quotation: I'm just busting your chops a little, really... :) You don't have to convince me of the need for a low-cost, accessible, open way to pass docs around - I just got a little tweaked with the "Real men use ASCII" crud. %b There _was_ a time (up to circa 1988)

Re: Document formats (was: To the keepers of the holy grail of Open Source)

2001-01-23 Thread Ian Lance Taylor
Rick Moen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In any event, I've been tempted to start an information-clearinghouse site listing the leading formats for various types of data files See http://www.wotsit.org/ It's probably not everything you want, but it's a start at what you seem to describing. Ian

Document formats (was: To the keepers of the holy grail of Open Source)

2001-01-23 Thread Rick Moen
begin Ben Tilly quotation: [TeX:] OK, so it is not open source. And before anyone points me at standard GPLed packages for TeX, allow me to point out that Knuth's software is under a license that does not permit modifications. IANAL, but AFAICS if you incorporate work which you are not

Re: Document formats (was: To the keepers of the holy grail of Open Source)

2001-01-23 Thread Rick Moen
begin Ben Tilly quotation: See http://www.latex-project.org/guides/ltx3info/node2.html for confirmation. See also http://www.latex-project.org/guides/ltx3info/node4.html for evidence that there is at present no plan to remove the dependency upon TeX. Thanks for the clarification. LaTeX