Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] (1)(f) and (1)(g) -- audience and working language

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

2008/6/12 David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com>:

>
> One data point: As an end-user, the interoperability issue that deeply
> annoys me between different word processors and presentation software
> is layout changes in the same document viewed or printed from
> different applications. (That MS Word notoriously doesn't keep this
> consistent on the same version of Word on the same OS on different
> printers is hair-tearingly frustrating.) Lines ending up on the wrong
> page, etc. Pixel-perfect I can live without, line- and word-placement
> consistency is another matter.

That could get even more grey. Gross line changes are one thing, but
different fonts could result in hyphenation on one implementation, clean
word endings on another. I'm sure a typographer could provide some
reasonable definition of this (slightly more lax) definition of 'look-alike'
or whatever we're going to call it.


No answers, but a good redux. Captured in the issues list.

regards



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