-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Sorry for the off-topic post, but I figure you folks are some of the > best to ask this question of. > > Is there an open document format that is widely available on Windows, > Mac, and Linux, that can do all the stuff that the proprietary formats > (.DOC, .WPD, etc) can do (such as graphics, tables, columns, > font/attributes, indenting, justification, super/subscripts, > footnotes, endnotes, math formulas, etc)? > > My goal is to try and weed campus staff/faculty/students away from > proprietary formats (esp. .DOC) to open formats, for three reasons: > 1) prevent the spread of macro viruses ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Concentrate on this one. For some odd reason, some people have trouble comprehending the other two. > 2) increase cross-platform/version compatibility > 3) decrease the reliance on MS-Office so it'll be easier to convert > them eventually to a different OS (hint hint) .wpd (WordPerfect) seems to work pretty decent. I also like to use HTML, but that doesn't fit your needs. If you don't need the documents to change, I would recommend Adobe Acrobat .pdf files. If you *do* need to pass around documents for editing, then MS Word's .doc is your one and only choice. Just be anal about anti-virus software (like have it automatically try to update every Monday @ noon or something like that). - -- - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC GPG key id: 50DE1CFC GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE57jLM/ZTSZFDeHPwRAuk+AKC75I8meyd/xqTSrwNk7AMnIvP3wwCfQr3t x8SKsAlCBOXLx2zowwfleOg= =l/o4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----