I've made my position pretty clear in past postings, and it hasn't changed. But let me review what I regard as facts:
1. Our archive of scores serves many, many more non-techies than techies. 2. It is difficult if not impossible to set up a Windows browser to automatically open .ps.gz. 3. Many more people (like 98%) use Windows than Linux, decreasing the significance of shortcomings in the Linux Acrobat Reader. 4. Many of us (including me) have gotten cries for help about how to view/browse/process .ps and/or .ps.gz; I haven't gotten nor heard of any such inquiries regarding pdf's. 5. People who regard gsview's screen rendering as superior to acroread's may view pdf's in gsview. 6. Yesterday I had no end of difficulty finding gsview 4.0 and ARFL ghostscript 7.0 files...the wisc website did not respond at all when I tried to download from there, nor did the first dozen or so of the CTAN mirror sites I tried. No such problem getting acrobat reader. I can only think of two points in favor of archiving .ps.gz: 1. The files are smaller than PDF's 2. They don't have the problems with type-1 slurs that I recently encountered. Life is full of compromises. I'm 100% convinced that Christian made the right choice in this case. --Don Simons _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
