From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Dec 18 06:17:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12846 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 06:17:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.bodensee.com (mail.bodensee.com [212.62.192.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12839 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 06:17:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rainer.Duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de) Received: from gw1.bodensee.com (root@gw1.konstanz.netsurf.de [194.163.242.39]) by mail.bodensee.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10708 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:16:41 +0100 Received: from duffner.surf24.de (surf248.surf24.de [212.62.193.248]) by gw1.bodensee.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA22738 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:16:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:10:17 +0100 (MEZ) From: Rainer M Duffner Subject: Re: vi & word documents To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 X-Organization: enigma, http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~enigma X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.46] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id GAA12842 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 17 Dec, Haavard Vaagstoel wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Random Liegh wrote: > > > I completely agree; my point is only that w/ the variance in word > > versions, and the frequency that it changes, you'll end up sooner or later > > with a document that a converter hasn't been written for. Then the vi tips > > will probably put you in good stead. :) > > I believe I have seen on MS' web pages that they plan that future versions > of Office will use HTML as the main file format, but surely this must be > wrong? Because if it was true, MS may be digging their own grave... :) It's not HTML - it's XML. 'X' means eXtensible - and extending is what Microsoft is very good at (in comparison to "implementing") XML is not so easy to learn, as HTML3.2 was. Unfortunately. cheers, Rainer -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |Rainer Duffner, E-Mail: duffner@fh-konstanz.de | | & Rainer.Duffner@surf24.de | |Fachhochschule Konstanz, Germany | |"What's a Network ?" - Bill Gates, early 1980s | | Achtung: rainer.duffner@konstanz.netsurf.de | |(die alte E-Mail Adresse) verfällt zum 31.12.98 | | WWW:http://www-stud.fh-konstanz.de/~duffner | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message