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Re: printable online docs
Well, since StarOffice exists and is free and can read Word, how about if I
call it "StarOffice word-processor format"?
Seriously, I'm open to anything. It's just that Word is pretty ubiquitous,
and if somebody has a religious objection,
then we can translate from Word into lots of other things (including HTML,
PDF, Tex, etc. etc. etc.)
Erik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip J. Hollenback" <phil@hollenback.net>
To: "Erik Jessen" <ejessen@adelphia.net>
Cc: <xconq7@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, April 01, 2002 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: printable online docs
> Since this is an open-source project, I have to admit I am pretty
> hesitant about including word docs with it.
>
> There are a number of open-source documentations standards/tools - maybe
> one of them could serve?
>
> Sorry, I know that's not very helpful, just wanted to add my thoughts.
>
> P.
>
> On 04/01/02, Erik Jessen wrote:
> > Stan,
> > I did the conversion manually.
> >
> > My thought was:
> > - Word can output HTML
> > - HTML editors generally can't output Word
> > - Word has cross-indexes, TOC, etc.
> > - A doc in Word can be printed at one go (double sided, etc.); lots of
HTML
> > pages
> > don't allow this.
> >
> > So, Word would be a good starting doc, and output HTML/PDF/etc. from it.
> >
> > I'll finish the Word doc (basically, making it look pretty, so that
'code'
> > has a different look
> > than text, etc.) if that's what'll get maintained. Otherwise, I won't
> > bother.
> >
> > Erik
> >
>
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