Re: [gopher] Updated Gopher RFC
On 19 May 2012 14:11, Nuno J. Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> On 2012-05-19, Nick Matavka wrote:
>
>> I have an idea for selectors. There is a large difference between
>> word processing files and page layout languages, so I recommend
>> keeping both d and p selectors. d could be for word processing
>> documents such as Word, OpenOffice, and WordPerfect, and p could be
>> for page layout and markup languages such as LaTeX, PDF, PostScript,
>> and Rich Text Format.
>
> About LaTeX, I believe either you're serving the code as something for
> the user to read (hence type 0 or another type that gets established for
> alternate encodings), or you're serving the set of source files, which
> the user will have to download an unpack.
>
> In this case, I believe a "document" item type does not apply, it's
> either 0 or 9, depending on whether it's a short snippet of code that
> you can serve as-is or a tarball with the files.
>
>> I've got a bunch of good ideas, so I've been
>> working on a draft RFC that I will later publish.
>
>
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I mean the LaTeX source itself, which is a page-layout document (p)
and not a binary, since it is in plain text. PDF's and Latex DVI's
belong to the binary document (d) section.
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