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Re: [SG2] Question: Put Variant Rules in Web Pages?

From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@e...>
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 09:30:36 -0700
Subject: Re: [SG2] Question: Put Variant Rules in Web Pages?

RTF is a fairly open standards, almost any system has a program (other 
than Word) that will read it, possibly a free program (wordpad.exe for 
example)

Roger Burton West wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:29:59AM -0500, Allan Goodall wrote:
>
>>I will be putting the document on my web site, probably in RTF, Word,
and
>>Adobe Acrobat formats. Is there any desire for me to put these up as
HTML
>>documents, too? I didn't think there would be, as anyone really
interested in
>>it would simply pull down the whole file, but I thought I'd ask first.
>>
>
>Yes. HTML is much easier than any of those other formats to convert for
>other uses - for example, as a document on a palmtop. Acrobat Reader
>(for example) is a large, buggy piece of software which certainly isn't
>on every system from which I access the net; HTML, in a pinch, can be
>read manually.
>
>(Also, I'm not sure about RTF, but MS-Word and Acrobat are proprietary
>standards, subject to change at any time. Just ask anyone who's tried
to
>load old Word files...)
>
>Roger
>


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