Oooh! A SLUG troll. It's been so long, so perhaps I'll bite.
<quote who="Paul Cameron">
> Well maybe u shouldn't use the linux version as its crap! Use windows it
> was written for it!
Acrobat Reader for Windows was definitely written for Windows. Acrobat
Reader for Unix wasn't.
> honestly i dont understand if u want documentation that is not man crap
> than use .doc!!!
Perhaps recommending a true open standard such as Docbook, or even another
proprietary (yet more appropriate to the task) format such as FrameMaker
would be more sensible. Still groff and it's ilk have been used for years,
and man pages are a standard in their own right.
Word documents are a suboptimal solution in this case.
> I am honestly sick of the linux lamers at work, they want to use their
> own crazt abiword or man crap. It cant generate proper .doc files, so
> where is the point? I tried to make for them for application documentate
> software, but i can't appease those freakes.
Ask them to use Docbook. You'll be able to output RTF, HTML, text,
PostScript and PDF from an easily editable, standardised documentation
format.
> Seem my previous stuff it you see Word exports html files!! Its damm
> easy u just select if from the menu.
Reality: A friend recently asked if I'd read a chapter of his book (being
published soon, lots of Free Software plugs in it too), and given that his
publisher only accepted MS Word documents, he asked if I would prefer it in
HTML or DOC format.
Of course, I asked for the HTML. He saved it, and sent it to me. The
document was *enormous*, Netscape had a hernia rendering the stupid thing,
and upon further inspection, there were over 2000 lines of CSS at the
beginning.
"Its damm easy u just select if from the menu."
You're hooked.
> If it's 15 years old and designed for really old computers then maybe
> upgrade. It surely is better. Idiot.
Sure.
> Look, I've seen this before. If you want to be employable, than you
> need to have the skills.
The skills to enslave documentation in a proprietary format, without thought
for the future?
> Not knowing basics documentation stuff like Word is surefire way to get
> passed up.
You'll find a lot of people on this list who put their principles before
convenience. Many of them will also make the choice *not* to work with
proprietary software... Getting passed up for lack of Word skills is not
much of a concern at all.
> Anyhow theres my advice.
And such worthwhile advice it was.
- Jeff
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