Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Faber Fedor wrote:
>
> > >I really have no desire to impose formatting on those who would use our
> > >information; if a vendor wants to take our info and re-format it to suit
> > >the style of their existing presentation, fine by me.
>
> > And what *I* would like to avoid is the (I beleive) majority of people
> > who will look at the information and NOT be able to reformat it.
> > From my experience, that extra step will discourage quite a few people
> > (the majority, actually) from using our information. Sure, someone
> > like me, who is technically-savvy (and good-looking, to boot! :-)
> > won't have a problem with reformating the information, but most people
> > will.
>
> Which is why I propose making the information available in *one* "paper
> media" format. I would like this format to be:
>
> - known to be importable into most current word processors
>
> - fully featured enough to include the formatting features most people
> will want/need
>
> - generally well-known to the public
>
> - created or supported by a company with a demonstrated friendliness
> towards Linux and the Linux community
>
> The one format that meets all these qualifications is WordPerfect. It's
> the one paper format for anyone in the Linux community can download a
> reading *and editing* tool.
>
> I use WP as my word-processor of choice. Dan now absolutely loves it,
> he said so himself :-) (http://lwn.net/daily/lwn3/lwn3.html)
Ugh...Evan, I like WP and I'm a user myself, but really, there are not a whole
lot of people who still use it. I agree with Faber that we should make
getting a nice pretty version of our information as easy as possible for as
many people as possible. That means publishing our documents in a format that
will cleanly and easily import into MS Word and/or PowerPoint. It is
irrelevant whether it's the greatest word processor in the world or if Corel
is buddy-buddy with Linux; the point is to get our message out clearly and
consistantly. The unfortunate reality is that MS Office is the dominant
standard and we need to go out of our way to accomodate these users, so that
we can effectively reach our target audience.
I say publish it in as many formats as necessary to get as many eyes on it as
possible. (BTW if it wasn't obvious I heartily agree with creating a "press"
section on the web page.)
Jared
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