RE: OT: Cross-platform document format?
> From: Kent West [mailto:westk@nicanor.acu.edu]
> > LaTeX or Lout (combined with say xfig or dia for graphics)
> > may fit the bill,
> Thanks for the response. I was looking for a common document
> format, so that the students on campus would quit turning their
> homework in as .DOC format.
RTF is open enough. I know that WP and OpenOffice and the rest can
read it, and there's a native-RTF editor for Linux, too. Plus, Word
can be convinced to save as RTF, though of course it hates being
prevented from tripling the file size with binary DOC stuff.
RTF doesn't support every possible format option, but it should cover
90% of the stuff you'd run into on campus. It doesn't support viruses
to my knowledge.
Well, except for the fact that if you rename a .doc file to .rtf,
Word will open it and edit it like a DOC file, including running macros.
So even if it looks like an RTF file, it might not be. Still, it's
better than nothing...
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
Microsoft Windows - The defacto substandard.
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