Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
> 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)
Yes, I do like it... but have not started using it because of the large body
of documents I already have in Applixware.
> Considering that we *all* can download WordPerfect for Linux at no cost,
> the products is well-known worldwide, that its format is easily importable
> into MS-Word, is there any reason *not* to use this as our standard
> "paper" format?
Uhh.. yes! While I understand that WP is importable into *most* word
processors, it is not into all. On the other hand, there are other
formats such as Microsoft's Rich Text Format which, because of the
near-monopoly of Microsoft Office, is now readable by pretty much any
word processing or desktop publishing format on the planet.
The goal is to make it **easy** for people. I'm not 100% convinced that
putting the files out there as WP is the answer... but I'm willing to
listen.
Regards,
Dan
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