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From: rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 08:03:51 BST
Subject: Re: Discography
To: uli@zoodle.robin.de (Ulrich Grepel)
Cc: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: uli@zoodle.robin.de's message of 2 Jun 93 18:07:34 GMT
References: <m0o0epX-000Nm6C@zoodle.robin.de>
In article <m0o0epX-000Nm6C@zoodle.robin.de>, Ulrich Grepel (ug) writes: ug> Let's talk about the text file format. I could offer TeX, ug> PostScript, plain ASCII, rtf (w/out hypertext and pictures, then ug> it could be read by many MS-WINDOWS applications as MS-Word). Of ug> course there's also the possibility to put it on the ftp server in ug> several formats, but that would a) increase space usage and b) ug> increase difficulty in maintaining it. I did a LaTeXinfo version of Ron Hill's Cloudbusting KT quote compilation. That format has the advantage that you can run it through LaTeX to get a nicely formatted version and also process it to produce an `info' file with simple hypertext structure. Info files can be explored in emacs or using `xinfo' in X, I don't know if there are native Windows, MessyDos etc. readers for it. A way to get multiple formats without impossible maintainence is to pick a format with lots of structure and be careful to use it in a fairly predictable way. Then it should be realtievly easy to automatically convert it. -- rjc@cogsci.ed.ac.uk _O_ |<