From seidensticker@msn.com Sun Mar 25 07:26:03 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: seidensticker@msn.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_0_4); 25 Mar 2001 15:26:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 60145 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 15:26:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2001 15:26:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fh.egroups.com) (10.1.2.135) by mta1 with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 15:26:02 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: seidensticker@msn.com Received: from [10.1.10.132] by fh.egroups.com with NNFMP; 25 Mar 2001 15:26:02 -0000 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 15:26:00 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Marketing lojban Message-ID: <99l2m8+4r97@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <01032420331100.03095@neo.fen.bilkent.edu.tr> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1222 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 206.129.86.130 From: seidensticker@msn.com --- In lojban@y..., Robin Turner wrote: > > Those of us in the Windoze world don't know what to do with TeX and its > > relatives. The master of the draft textbook is in Microsoft Word, which is > > on the website. > > And those of us outside the Windoze world don't like Word documents, even if > we have something that can read them ;-) I suggest we adopt PDF for long > documents on the site, and stick to HTML for shorter stuff. PDF is not ideal > by any means, but at least it's cross-platform. PDF is read only. If the TeX or LaTeX approaches are easy (that is, in a WYSIWYG way) to modify, then perhaps the nuisance of learning a new editor won't be a big deal. I'd vote for a format that's editable. Or, make both .pdf and .doc (or whatever) forms available. The reason I bring up editability is that I frequently find the formatting of some web-based document to be suboptimum. Not a problem (to me) if it's in Word. But it's basically unreadable if it's in PDF format. For example, lojban.org has a short .pdf Lojban dictionary written with a microscopic font. It looks like a nice piece of work, but I'd need to tweak it before printing it -- not an option with .pdf.