Re: LDP Manifesto Draft-4

["Greg W" <greg@ausit.com>]

I feel plain text or HTML as a standard....all others are lovely for
specific systems and should be able to be created from these formats

at least with plain text there is a gaurantee that all systems will be able
to use it......if HTML it should be basic HTML....like


HTML code here

under this line plain text only and NO HTML tags etc

==============

Document plain text here, including all seperators

===========

HTML code here



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On 14/12/99 at 21:00 Yves Bellefeuille wrote:

>Tim <tjbynum@wallybox.cei.net> wrote:
>
>> I'm open to suggestions and have a few of my own on this matter, so
>> feel free to make them.
>
>I feel strongly that plain text is the most basic, universally readable
>format, and should always be accepted, no matter what.
>
>I often like to read documentation on paper, and it's a lot easier to
>print something in plain text than in HTML or another format.
>(Especially if you have a non-Postscript printer and are printing the
>docs from DOS or Windows, *before* you install Linux.) If people want
>Postscript, then by all means give it to them, but don't forget to
>include plain text too. 
>



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