From isaak@ljo.dec.com Mon Sep 25 15:28:35 1995 Received: from mail2.digital.com (mail2.digital.com [204.123.2.56]) by dkuug.dk (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA16401 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 15:28:16 +0100 Received: from vanna.ljo.dec.com by mail2.digital.com; (5.65 EXP 4/12/95 for V3.2/1.0/WV) id AA01866; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 07:14:21 -0700 Received: from csac by vanna.ljo.dec.com; (5.65/1.1.8.2/10Oct94-8.2MPM) id AA18430; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:13:31 -0400 Received: by csac.ljo.dec.com; id AA11133; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:14:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:14:17 -0400 From: JimIsaak Message-Id: <9509251414.AA11133@csac.ljo.dec.com> To: sc22wg15@dkuug.dk Subject: Electronic Distribution to WG15 members At this last week's WG15 meeting, much effort was spent developing a response to the current JTC1 policy on electronic distribution of documents (DOS Diskettes in RTF, Word or Wordperfect format). Also we developed a starting point for an SC22 policy which calls for distribution of Postscript, PDF and ASCII files via email and FTP. SC22 also authorized the formation of a web page for SC22 and we can expect that channel for access to documents to be developed as well. My full report on the SC22 meeting will follow this email in 5 (count them) different formats. I would appreciate feedback on which formats are most/least useful. These are: Postscript PDF (created by Adobe Acrobat; readers for this are available as "freeware" at: http://www.adobe.com) RTF (as generated by Word 4 Windows version 6.0) Text with Linebreaks (aka: ASCII, ISO 646, etc) (also as generated by Word 4 Windows v 6) HTML (also as generated by W4W v6 w/Internet assistant) It would be nice to reduce our target formats to a short list. I' m strongly inclined to leave "HTML" on the list since it reflects the closest thing to SGML we have, and as we develop more web capabilities will become a mainstay for our "online" access to documents. [Please let me know if you do not anticipate being able to get access to the World Wide Web; worst case is that there is a service at CERN, where you can send an email message with a URL, and it will send back the page in response to that ... however, this is a bit like trying to view your display screen though a straw ... it's very hard to get the whole picture, or even the pieces you need.] Here's the comparitive sizes of the document in these formats FYI: 10479 Sep 25 08:49 wg15rep.rtf 14071 Sep 25 08:58 wg15rep.pdf 6119 Sep 25 08:58 wg15rep.txt 10121 Sep 25 09:01 wg15rep.ps 8196 Sep 25 09:01 wg15rep.htm