Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:56:38 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "ML Duke" <mlduke@concentric.net>, "Annelise Anderson" <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: "Bruce Harding" <bdh@inspire.net.nz>, <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Introductory Book on FreeBSD Message-ID: <000101c0e2e0$2b00d380$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105212307540.318-100000@mlduke.concentric.net>
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You can look at the pdf to see what was used to produce it, worse than MS Word though is Adobe. ;-) However, keep this in mind, most publishers require submittal in electronic form, and MS Word format is frequently preferred over ASCII or other format. She may not have had any choice. Anyway, it's not like the UNIX community has no truck with MS Word format files - look at the wv program, and I think that the major wordprocessing programs (star office, etc) also digest the format. Also, one other thing - if everyone standardizes on Microsoft Word 97 format files, then it makes it incredibly difficult for Microsoft to be able to get away with changing the file format. I think that Orifice 2000 uses Word 97 format, and that the upcoming Orafice XP will use it too. Consider that one of the ways Microsoft has forced people in the past to buy new versions of Orafice was by changing the file format, and you can see how damaging it is to them if everyone forces compliance with a set format, no matter who creates the format. As of now no one has incentive to upgrade to the new version of Orafice so this really hurts their sales. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of ML Duke >Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 11:16 PM >To: Annelise Anderson >Cc: Bruce Harding; freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Introductory Book on FreeBSD > > >On Mon, 21 May 2001, Annelise Anderson wrote: > >> Yes, I do want spelling, formatting, grammatical, everything if you >> like. It's hard to find all of those yourself. > >I sent the URL to your book to my Unix Mentor because you mentioned >that, in the book, you spend more time with vi than other options >as editors. > >So he has a look, says basically "not bad for a draft," and then >says you did it with $mswurd!??! > >What kind of statement is _that_? > >You do a book on FBSD, and use $ms tools to produce it? > >Tell me he is mistaken. >I shudder to go look for myself as he's _never_ >been wrong on this sort of thing. > >Duke > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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