[Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[Dan Geiser]

Good Evening, Everyone!
I've noticed that people continue to push back and forth on some key (and 
not so key) issues such as the case of GNE acceping (or not) Word formatted 
documents.

Since I assume that someone is maintaining some sort of project 
specification document can't we just put Word documents in the section 
regarding features for future consideration?

Ultimately, yes, I think that it would be nice if we could accept article 
submissions in any format.  I'd like to have the ability to submit articles 
using the Orthogonal Scent Tablature of Metatarsal Prime but I'm willing to 
wait until that functionality is available.

Since text files are a well-known format for documents can't we just start 
with that?  For you pro-Word people isn't it enough to say that we will make 
note of your suggestion and consider them for the next versions of GNE?

Thanks!
Dan Geiser <address@hidden>

> On 26 Jan 2001, at 15:02, Mike Warren wrote:
>
> > Bob Dodd <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > People should be able to submit the content (not the header info
> > > necessarily) in any well-known, well supported content format. If
> > > particluar catalogs/filters prefer certain file formats for
> > > presentation, [..]  I would argue that you *must* preserve the
> > > original submission though: the author (and others) may need to
> > > update the submission.
> > > If people would like to make use of converters on their Word > 
> documents before submission, that's fine. If you're seriously > advocating 
> that the GNE actually store Word documents, then I can't > > agree. I also 
> don't think we should accept Word documents as a > submission format.
>
> GNE could just accept Word documents and convert them into whatever format 
> we wish to use and store them in that format.
>
> Imran Ghory

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