[Insight-developers] Documentation File Format

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Paul-

I hear you. Open-source means anyone can edit the files,
including the style document. That's why PDF isn't the
solution either. From what I understand, there are Unix
tools that (StarOffice) that can read Word formats, etc.
But I will also create a pdf version that is a bit easier to
read.

I'm struggling with this issue myself, because we've
got some serious documentation to write next year, and I
don't get along with Word (I actually prefer FrameMaker but
everyone here thinks I'm nuts :-)

Will

At 10:11 AM 11/13/2000 -0500, Paul Hughett wrote:

>Will Schroeder has written:
>
> > The Insight/Documents/Style.ppt is kept up-to-date ...
>                               ***
>
>I was under the impression that Insight was supposed to be an open
>source project.  Why are we distributing vital information in a
>proprietary format that some of us cannot easily read?
>
>I strongly suggest that all documents should be distributed in PDF
>format, in addition to or instead of whatever format you find
>convenient for creating the document.  That way, the readers only have
>to get ONE document reading program instead of many.
>
>It would be even better to standardize on a single document
>preparation tool, but I suspect the TeX and MS Word users will have
>irreconcilable differences...
>
>Paul Hughett