From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cpe-24-221-98-238.az.sprintbbd.net ([24.221.98.238] helo=lnx1.holmesgrown.com ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #1 (Debian)) id 16QAA3-0003mY-00 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:40:40 -0500 Received: from lnx3.holmesgrown.com (steve@lnx3.holmesgrown.com [192.168.1.5]) by lnx1.holmesgrown.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA25583 for ; Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:40:29 -0700 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:40:42 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Holmes To: Subject: Re: anti-word In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.7 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: I agree; I was just thinking in terms of someone updating the document and returning it in the same format as originally sent. This could especially be the case if say, several people might be sharing a document. A common format should be agreed upon. Yes, I wish at that point the "agreed upon" standard format would be something more universal than MS Word. It's pretty sick how big always seems to win the common "standard" game. While I am thinking about it, I do recall a while back sending people a resume formatted using Word perfect and how many times they couldn't import it into Word or whatever and how we ended up on settling the matter by sending it in text format instead. I recall some other parties requesting the thing in text strait away to avoid such compatibility problems. On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > > > Yes and if a word document is sent to you for your input and editing, I'm > > sure the original party would expect the thing to come back in Word format > > along with the built-in formatting, styles and such. Some of this whole > > anti Word sounds arogant to me. > > > I rather think it arrogant to presume everyone wants and reads Word. I > regard it as arrogant to presume we all pay tribute to Microsoft. I > further regard it arrogant to treat a proprietary, non-consensus, file > format as some kind of standard. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >