Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Boris Gorelik
How about publishing the takanon in transparent format (as it is designed by GNU Free Documentation License: CITATION A Transparent copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy, represented in a format whose specification is available to the general public, that is suitable for revising

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:57, Boris Gorelik wrote: How about publishing the takanon in transparent format (as it is designed by snip. I just think in terms of idiological consistency. We will. The only reason the takanon is like this is because it was written by lawyers (being a legal

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Can someone please explain to me the advantages of a transparent format version of a document that is, by definition, centerally managed? Sh. Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 14:57, Boris Gorelik wrote: How about publishing the takanon in transparent format (as it

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 15:59, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Can someone please explain to me the advantages of a transparent format version of a document that is, by definition, centerally managed? Supposed someone wants to suggest a change to the Takanon - he can edit the transparent format document

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread b g
On Sunday 29 December 2002 15:44, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: .. We will. The only reason the takanon is like this is because it was written by lawyers (being a legal document) for Rasham Ha Amutut which works with (you guessed it) DOC files and it is still being debated by Which means that the

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting b g, from the post of Sun, 29 Dec: We will. The only reason the takanon is like this is because it was written by lawyers (being a legal document) for Rasham Ha Amutut which works with (you guessed it) DOC files and it is still being debated by Which means that the amuta has a

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002, b g wrote about Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]: We will. The only reason the takanon is like this is because it was written by lawyers (being a legal document) for Rasham Ha Amutut which works with (you guessed it) DOC files

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Ehud Karni
On 29 Dec 2002 16:04:48 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 15:59, Shachar Shemesh wrote: Can someone please explain to me the advantages of a transparent format version of a document that is, by definition, centerally managed? Supposed someone wants to

RE: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread linux_il
Just a minor correction taken as an excuse to educate people about such organizations - (or I am going to be corrected) - the body in charge of the Takanon, and which is the top body in an Amuta in general, is the assembly (i.e. all voting members of the Amuta). The Vaad is just the

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Here's hoping that you will get the attention my exact same posting didn't. Sh. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a minor correction taken as an excuse to educate people about such organizations - (or I am going to be corrected) - the body in charge of the Takanon, and which is the top

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002, Shachar Shemesh wrote about Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]: Here's hoping that you will get the attention my exact same posting didn't. It's nice to see that a board member isn't trigger-happy to wield his power, but the truth (I think, I am

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Sun, 29 Dec: The 5 people on the vaad were voted to actually do things (...) all this and more on the general discussion list of Hamakor (discuss-subscribe(at)hamakor.org.il) now for other exciting news of linux-il like... if my closed-source Java program

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 05:19:20PM +0200, b g wrote: On Sunday 29 December 2002 15:44, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: .. We will. The only reason the takanon is like this is because it was written by lawyers (being a legal document) for Rasham Ha Amutut which works with (you guessed it) DOC files

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:00:25PM +0200, Ira Abramov wrote: seriously, why should the registrar care if it's transparent or opaque if he's not going to edit it? as long as it's an open and popular standard it can be PDF or Flash for all I care :) I believe that PDF is hardly popular

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Shaul Karl
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 06:17:01PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote: It's quite interesting, by the way, that they even take electronic documents, MS-Word or not. From what I recall in my dealings with lawyers, or the lawyers I see on TV ( ;) ), they always work with printed documents (on papers

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How easy it is to create .pdfs on Windows without paying a lot of money to Adobe? Almost as easy as on Linux I'd say: install cygwin, create a LaTeX doc, compile it to ps, use ps2pdf. All of that should work with cygwin. ;-) -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL

Re: Takanon in transparent format [Was: Re: Hamakor website]

2002-12-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Nadav Har'El [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's quite interesting, by the way, that they even take electronic documents, MS-Word or not. From what I recall in my dealings with lawyers, or the lawyers I see on TV ( ;) ), they always work with printed documents (on papers with strange, non-standard