From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: [doug@cs.dartmouth.edu: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word]
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:00:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120211140006.GA26918@marx.bitnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0AC91F.3070400@bsd.lv>
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 12:01:51PM +0100, Kristaps Dzonsons wrote:
> >I mean, requesting a paper by Malcolm Douglas McIlroy for a journal,
> >than telling him that you accept "any kind of digital text--as
> >long as it's Word or RTF"? Oh boy!
> >
> I saw this too and it's quite silly -- I wonder which journal? I guess
> most non-scientific journals (and magazines, of course) accept strange
> formats like that... Ingo, maybe it's time for a -Tdocx output mode? ;)
> (I wonder if this is possible... if we had a -Txml, which would be
> pretty easy, then you could translate--gah! No!)
Just a reality check. Are you seriously suggesting that a non-trivial amount
of journals still accept roff & co.? No offence, but get over it: sad as it
may be, even majority of computer geeks can't use it, if they ever could.
- Jukka.
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2012-01-09 4:14 Ingo Schwarze
2012-01-09 11:01 ` Kristaps Dzonsons
2012-02-11 14:00 ` Jukka Ruohonen [this message]
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