On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:10:10 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: >> >> > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation >> >> > Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at >> >> > 3:00." he can send an archive containing a hierarchy of a dozen or >> >> > so files. Several kB in total. >> > Why not .txt? Even simpler, will retain all the information and be >> > readable with almost anything. >> >> How about images and text formatting? With plain text files you miss >> them (html should be a nice alternative but again, images have to be >> enclosed apart) ;-) > > There are no images in the text above. it is just that - simple text. > "Summer Vacation Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the > boardroom at 3:00."
Oh, well, if you put it that way... there is no need to make a document for that, just send an e-mail or upload a new twitter ;-) > I was not referring to a putative complicated document, but to this > specific example, and others like it. For this specific example .pdf is > overkill. I took the above just as a sarcastic example... I don't think the user is named "John Doe" :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.04.25.11.01...@gmail.com