RE: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments

[Albert Silver]

Two things: 

1) 
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> From: Albert Silver [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:05 AM
> To: 'Achim'; 'gnubg'
> Subject: RE: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments

(...)

> I don't recall being asked this as I know I would have said yes.

The word 'yes' is usually indicative of assent.

2) I know nothing about texi, which is not an issue, but wish to know
whether it supports the formatting and some of the other aspects
included such as hyperlinking and images. Joseph seemed to suggest it
was rather limited. In which case why not the OpenOffice format, again
proposed by Joseph? I am certain must have the appropriate features and
is another open source project.

                                                Albert

> -----Original Message-----
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> address@hidden On Behalf Of Mueller, Achim
> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 9:16 AM
> To: 'gnubg'
> Subject: Re: [Bug-gnubg] Re: Tutorial 2.00 - Comments
> 
> Am Mit, 2003-07-02 um 13.33 schrieb Øystein Johansen:
> > Read this nice article about using Microsoft Word:
> >
> > http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/blair.htm
> >
> > It points out one of the dangers of using MS-Word. Not that a
revision
> > log is bad for our project, but Word is such a big, bloat
application
> > that it's nearly impossible to control the document. It's also saved
in
> > a undocumented binary format, and that will make our revision
control
> > trickier. What if two of us is editing the same document at the same
> > time? Using a a plain text document format is much better for this
> > purpose. texi can be a candidate, so can LaTeX.
> >
> > And if the master document is in MS-Word, it demand that the user is
> > sitting on a Windows computer and uses MS-Word as his Word processor
> > application. This is absolutly not what the GNU philosophy is about.
GNU
> > philosophy says things should be free, that free to choose, free to
use
> > what ever Operating System I want, free to cooperate with other
> > developers and free from all closed file formats. Using MS-Word
blocks
> > some of the possibility for the developers and documentation writers
to
> > cooperate.
> 
> Full Ack
> 
> > If Albert allows it, we should decide to use some kind of plain text
> > based format of the master document, and add it to the CVS.
> 
> I already asked twice of we could use it for a new chapter, but still
> didn't receive an answer.
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Achim
> 
> 
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