From owner-metabolic-reg@net.bio.net Wed Sep 22 23:00:00 1993 Path: biosci!daresbury!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!festival!castle.ed.ac.uk!eang62 From: eang62@castle.ed.ac.uk (Herbert Sauro) Newsgroups: bionet.metabolic-reg Subject: Re: TeX/LaTeX and the FAQ Message-ID: Date: 23 Sep 93 18:20:33 GMT References: Sender: news@festival.ed.ac.uk (remote news read deamon) Organization: University of Edinburgh Lines: 29 In article gilbertd@sunflower.bio.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert) writes: >>In article eang62@castle.ed.ac.uk (Herbert Sauro) writes: >>>I have a suggestion that we use TeX/LaTeX to format any mathematical >>>stuff that we might put into the FAQ, any votes/comments on this? Maybe > >In article robert.aarts@vtt.fi writes: >>I would suggest that the FAQ is in PostScript format instead of (La)Tex >>and of course in addition to a plain ASCII version. > >Let me suggest even another format for your needs: RTF, which is >Microsoft's Rich-Text-Format that many wordprocessors can read and edit. >-- Don >-- d.gilbert--biocomputing--indiana u--bloomington--gilbertd@bio.indiana.edu I don't think it would be wise to use RTF or postscript in a FAQ, they are fairly bulky notations and also were not designed for easy readability - especially RTF. If there is a demand for these then I suggest that they be stored on the archive rather than included in the FAQ. --> I have just noticed John's example using RTF and PS and I think we'll all agree there is no point in using these in the FAQ. So I vote for LaTeX (in preference to TeX - this is better for new comers I think and in any case the LaTeX notation is simpler than TeX) and if contributers must include ASCII (which might be better in the simple cases) then as John has mentioned, do not use TABS, use spaces instead. Herbert Sauro .