Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Content Format

[Imran Ghory]

On 26 Jan 2001, at 5:40, Bob Dodd wrote:

> --- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote:
> [snip]
> > But nearly the entire field of mathematics uses Latex, almost every
> > maths software package supports Latex.
> 
> Fine, no problem, use Latex. But you need also to accept maths
> formatted in other formats (e.g. MathML) too, that's all. I'm not
> anti-Latex (or XML fro that matter) at all, I just don't want to force
> people to use it.
> 
> > > It strikes me that well known, well supported formats should be
> > > accepted. There is after all, no difference between a well known,
> > well
> > > supported proprietory format, and one developed by FSF
> > 
> > Have you seen the Word file format, grab the Word 6 spec from,
> > 
> > http://fileformat.virtualave.net/text/word6fmt.zip
> > 
> > If you want to write a converter to XML we'll all be happy:-)
> > 
> > Imran Ghory
> 
> I went looking at your link and got diverted off to:
> http://www.wvware.com/  which I found fascinating...

LOL. I didn't check the link when I posted it, I just posted the URL 
from which I got the file a while back.

Looking at wvware I drop all my objections to accepting Word files
 :-)

Imran