Bruce, Han and anyone else who might be interested:
The standard supported by most, if not all, vendors (certainly by the major
ones) of word processing software is Rich Text Format (.rtf file extension).
All Han has to do is choose Save As ... from Word's File menu and select the
RTF option before saving.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Bruce Raup
> Sent: May 07, 2001 09:46
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:12684] Re: Sunday world, 2000-07-17, rip-off and
> downsizing of cider
>
>
> Han,
>
> Thanks for your interesting postings; I enjoy your point of view.
>
> However, even though many people use it, MS Word is not a standard.
> Could you send the Cider story in non-proprietary format, such as plain
> text? Or, if fancy formatting is required, HTML would work.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> On 2001-05-05 18:56 +0200, Han Maenen wrote in USMA:12654:
>
> > Here is another view than BWMA's one on rip-offs and
> downsizing involving
> > systems of units. Although in this case the metric product - a
> 330 ml long
> > neck bottle of cider- WAS a rip-off as it had the worst value,
> this Irish
> > tabloid did *not* blame metric for it. I reported about this
> last summer,
> > but here is the entire article from the Sunday world, 2000-07-16.
> >
> > Han
> >
>
>
