Date   : Mon, 04 Nov 2002 15:07:35 +0000
From   : Paul Wheatley <p.r.wheatley@...>
Subject: Re: Which format do you want BBC manuals in? RTF/HTML

Christopher Dewhurst Clerical Assistant SS wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> If I may put my penny's worth into this debate:
> 
> HTML is nice because you can just browse without having to fiddle about 
> waiting for your PDF viewer to load and download the PDF file etc. You 
> can always cut and paste off the web page. That said, in my experience 
> printing PDF documents is more reliable than web pages. I would suggest 
> whatever format you display it in, all platforms can cope. If it's a PDF 
> then provide a link to a free download of a PDF viewer. I vaguely 
> remember seeing a PDF viewer for RISC OS, where is it, anyone? Is there 
> a RISC OS version of Latex, Paul?

I thought there was, but I could be wrong. I'm not quite as up to date on the 
RISC OS scene as I once was...

Paul

> 
> Personally I love the carefully crafted plain text versions, users can 
> then spruce them up with whatever DTP package they use, but that's just 
> me being old fashioned....
> 
> Regards
> CD
> 
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