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Subject: Re: [dita] Format of uploaded documents
Given that urgency often trumps decorum in our communications, this will have to be a future discussion. I think most members prefer minutes to be literal text in emails as the most direct way to read and respond. Meanwhile, OASIS has its own tool for pasting minutes text into their system. And binary attachments are stripped of extension to prevent incidental activation of possible viruses, so PDFs are not actually that friendly in practice. We also benefit by minutes being easy to search on as text in emails. If you can accept the communications for what they are while we try to get this current draft out, we can take some time during our Lessons Learned session that will be scheduled during the public review to see how we can improve our procedures going forward. Thanks for your concern! Regards, -- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions Email: dond@us.ibm.com 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 Phone: +1 512-244-2868 (home office) "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot From: jang@jang.nl To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org Date: 01/19/2010 07:35 AM Subject: [dita] Format of uploaded documents As a newbie to various DITA TCs and SCs, I see a couple of strange things that might be easy to improve on. I am sending this to the DITA TC group for consideration as a general proposal on one detail of the DITA standards work. Documents that are uploaded to the OASIS server have a wild variety of file formats, which does not make life of volunteers on the various committees easier. TXT, DOC, RTF, PPT etc. should not be considered appropriate output format for documents that are only used to read stuff. If I want to read any of those documents, I have to open a program that I might or might not have available on my computer. After all, I just want to read the stuff, not make changes to it. Documents that are meant for reading (such as minutes and proposals) should in my view ALWAYS be uploaded as PDF - being the simplest and most supported file format in our digital world. And every program has an option to print output to PDF. Is this making sense to more people than just me, myself and I ? Jang - the philosopher of the group
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