From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Tue Aug 02 23:00:00 1994 Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!news.uta.edu!wbar.uta.edu!patrick From: patrick@wbar.uta.edu (Patrick Phillips) Subject: Re: An Electronic WBG? Message-ID: <1994Aug3.155715.13202@news.uta.edu> Sender: news@news.uta.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: wbar.uta.edu Organization: /usr/local/lib/news/organization References: <9408021934.AA19609@eatworms.swmed.edu> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 1994 15:57:15 GMT Lines: 20 I have to agree with Don on this one. RTF would seem to me to be the best way to go since most word processors will let you save in this format just using the "Save As" equivalent. Of course the big question for Leon is, will FrameMaker save in RTF format :-? Another question would be about the graphics stuff. I don't think that either RTF or HTML support a native graphics format, but instead use references to external files. Using NEXTSTEP (which I do), there is something called RTFD which includes all attachments, such as graphics files, in a subdirectory hierarchy. Does the equivalent exist on Macs and IBMs? Another question would be how well WWW viewers handle RTF and RTFD formatted files. The viewers for NEXTSTEP like it because RTF has support built in the operating system. Does Mosaic handle it nicely? If not, then we are probably back to HTML because I think Leon has an Internet resource in mind. I would say, whatever format you decide on, just put it on the Internet first, and then see how things go from there. Patrick Phillips University of Texas at Arlington patrick@wbar.uta.edu .