Formats for electronic papers
Bruce Edmonds (B.Edmonds@MMU.AC.UK)
Fri, 3 Nov 1995 16:07:56 GMT
> Hans and I are talking about a paper of mine available over mmy ftp server:
>
> >Most of these papers are in postscript or text, and both I can't use.
> >This is a general commend on pcp-papers. If they are in these
> >formats, they are unaccessible. But thanks anyway, I'll look into
> >those.
>
> Yes, this is a general problem. The point is that straight ASCII is simply
> inadequate for a document of any complexity, involving fonts, text styles,
> formatting, or mathematics, let alone any kinds of figures. There are many
> other formats out there which capture that information. On the one hand,
> there are binary special-purpose word processing format like Word and
> WordPerfect. Then there are ASCII-markup forms like LaTeX, postscript, and
> rtf, and the new formats like HTML and Acrobat. These work best over the
> net. Postscript is, by far, the industry standard. Virtually all complex
> documents available on the net which are intended to be printed are in
> postscript.
Ideally papers should be in, HTML, text, postscript and maybe RTF.
To do this effectively write (or import) the article in either
Framemaker or LaTeX, then use available tools to automatically
produce versions in the other formats ... (OK, this is only
fine if you have access to these, I know :-( ).
They should also have options including PKZipped and Gzipped versions
of these for those with slow connections (or merely the wrong side of
the atlantic link).
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