How to set up an automatic archive of city council committees' public notices 7174

On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:08:55 -0500, Chuck F.

Personally I fail to see how the choice of data format has anything to do with any server environment or delivery mechanism though.

Comments like that tend to hold back Linux adoption because people get scared into thinking they're going to have to swap *everything* over from MS to Linux at once...

But text files can't embed images or other content. I don't think RTF files can either. PDF meanwhile requires plugins and delivers a format which is non-editable for typical users.

Word is present on the majority of MS and Apple systems, and accessible from Linux systems via the likes of Openoffice. No, it's not a nice format, and it's a pity that it's not controlled by a company who aren't more interested in cross-platform solutions to problems. But it's probably the only choice there is for a flexible format that can reach the majority of people, whilst allowing them to annotate and control once on their own machine as they see fit (PDF falls down on the latter. Sadly, Word will too once MS introduce all the DRM garbage into it)

cheers

Jules