MathPack - Best way to Package & Document?
Pascal Bourguignon
pjb at imaginet.fr
Mon Jul 23 18:09:09 UTC 2001
> From: "Jarvis, Robert P. (Contingent)" <Jarvisb at timken.com>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 13:20:44 -0400
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Weichert [mailto:weichert at hal-pc.org]
> > Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 12:07 PM
> > To: Squeak Dev
> > Subject: MathPack - Best way to Package & Document?
> >
> > <snip!>
> > What is a good method of handling the documenation? Word 2000?
>
> As far as the docs go, MS-Word would be a pretty poor choice IMHO as it's
> limited to the Windows platform only. Postscript would be a nice choice for
> display-only stuff, with PDF and perhaps RTF being alternatives. Flat text
> is also an option - it's not pretty, but it *is* portable!
>
> Bob Jarvis
> Compuware @ Timken
And think about the portability in time too, not only on a range of
computers at a given date.
We still can read ASCII documents such as rfc0001.txt dated back 7
April 1969, and I'm said that on some unices, we still can read ASCII
based document such as man page dating back from 1968, and we can read
these documents on the whole range of today computers and hopefully
for the unforseeable future.
Now, tell me please, can you read documents written with MS-Word in
1986? Five years ago? Of last year? For sure, I can't read MS-Word
document written today with MS-Word *2001* on my StarOffice which can
read only MS-Word *2000* documents.
If you're really serrious about your documents, write them in
SGML. This is an ASCII based standard for which we have tools to read
them on every computer present and future (HTML is an application of
SGML).
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