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From: Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [doug@cs.dartmouth.edu: [Groff] groff to RTF or Word]
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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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