[Insight-developers] First crack at usage documentation

[Joshua Cates]

Hello,

We have found StarOffice to be less than satisfactory as a solution for
document portability.  Aside from performance issues and being generally
unpleasant to use, our experience has been that it does not yet handle the
microsoft proprietary formats very well.  microsoft file formats are very
convenient for windows users. But for the non-user, these formats really
are difficult to work with, despite StarOffice's best efforts.

Josh.

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 Josh Cates			
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 University of Utah
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On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> I really think that a modern graphical editor should be used.
> What about Word, and StarOffice for opensource.   We could
> save the files in Work 6.0 or RTF, and make sure that it stays
> working in Staroffice.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> 
> At 07:32 AM 12/21/00 -0500, Daniel J. Blezek, Ph.D. wrote:
> >Will, et. al.,
> >
> > > Issues: I'd also like to settle on a implementation (e.g.,
> > > Word, etc.) that can be used to create both a nice looking text as
> > > well as producing html.  I'd also like to adopt some styles that are
> > > reasonable consistent. Suggestions?
> >
> >   The DocBook framework allows anyone with a text editor to create nice
> >looking print/PDF/HTML material.  It is written in XML, and should be easy
> >to pick up by everyone.  From the DocBook file, we could generate a
> >variety of formats.  More information about DocBook is at
> >http://www.docbook.org  -- In the OpenSource spirit of Insight, I would
> >suggest that on OpenSource documentation format be appropriate.
> >
> >-dan
> >
> >--
> >Daniel Blezek, Ph.D.
> >blezek@crd.ge.com
> >Visual Information Program
> >Electronic Systems Lab
> >GE Corporate Research & Development
> >
> >
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