>Do not know what PDF is, and I cannot read postscript or MS Word
>without many contortions.  How about a format which is actually
>READABLE?  Thought that would be too much to ask.

PDF is a "Portable Document Format" being pushed by Adobe Systems.
They make the file structure available, but maintain a propriatary
encryption mathod in their implementation. Royal P.I.T.A. 
My vote: don't support the rich& stupid, avaiod this format.

As for Postscript, this makes printing very nice & easy ,usually,
but..... 
Not editable (easily), or copyable (for class papers, etc.).
Again A pain.

MSWord.
Sigh. Very nice program, sigh. Not common to all platforms (thank the lord!)
Please don't support the great BORG (B.G./M.S.)any more than we have to.
Notmeaning to get intothe wars again, but Word is NOT a multi-platform
standard. (wooo...that was a difficult one for me to write, sigh).


OK... my suggestions:
RTF : amazingly enough, I have YET to meet a platform that can't read this one!
Go RTF!


ASCII : Still the best in many ways...."Gee, I can even read it in DOS!"

HTML : Heeeeeyyyy......what a idea...many commercial Text-to-HTML converters
around, embedded graphics, EVERYbody has a Browser (mostly), AND
the index/contents could be hyper-linked....

Whadda ya say?

Oh, and if you must flame me for my anti-DOS/Win bias, do so to my 
personal e-mail:
baker@charlieb.com


Otherwise:play on!


CharlieB
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http://www.charlieb.com/