| Graeme Gerrard wrote
>
>>Just one question: Is there ANY format compatible with ALL the platforms?
>>Is the TXT format (plain text or ASCII) compatible with ANY text editor?
>>Excuse my bothering question. Hope somebody answer them. ;))
>>Pablo Sotuyo
>
>Even plain old text files aren't compat. On Win you get CR+LF, on Mac
>you just get CR - also on Unix too as I recall.
most modern ftp systems get round this quite fine.
I dont understand the terms under which is discussion is being conducted.
Surely if the manual is maintained by someone ( rather than noone ) it will
live in their favourite editor program and they will be able to do a plain
ascii and a postscript version easily and other types depending on the
software, platform, phases of the moon etc etc.
Obviously something like SGML would be the ideal solution as that
easily generates almost any format of document but that depends on the
person maintaining it as not everyone has a SGML system.
--
James Andrews, Computer Development Officer, Exeter University Maths Dept |