We have been involved in discussing the manual update for some time. The
time seems to be ripe for action. It is also imperative that decisions
be made now since the "official" ftp site (Bath) is about to be
completely reorganized.

The Umontreal group is willing to take this on, as we have been
participating in the reorganisation at Bath and will perhaps be involved
in maintaining the ftp site in the future. We will collate and format
the manual and provide update templates to developers for documenting
their changes.

We would not presume to impose our choice of format on anyone. However
we have to be realistic as to how many formats can be supported.
Therefor, we are conducting a strawpoll on user preferences. The choices
are by force restricted to formats that are readable by more than a
single architecture.

                 ---------- Manual POLL -------------

Please email to pichej@ere.umontreal.ca using the subject: 
and in the body of the message write three choices on three lines
amongst the following:  text, html, pdf, rtf, postscript, latex, sgml,
roff(variants), ordering by preference. 

IMPORTANT:

1-  ***PLEASE DONT WRITE ANYTHING ELSE IN THE MESSAGE BECAUSE I HAVE
WRITTEN A SCRIPT TO TABULATE AND IT WILL BARF ON ANYTHING ELSE THAN
THESE WORDS***

2-  *** DO NOT MAIL RESPONSES TO THE LIST **** only to
pichej@ere.umontreal.ca.

I will tabulate and post results at the beginning of next week. Lets try
and get as many responses as possible.

Da.

 
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Jean Piche
Universite de Montreal
http://mistral.ere.umontreal.ca/~pichej
http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/Org/CompoElectro/CEC/