[dq-rules] Re: A note about format

["John Rauchert" <john.rauchert@sait.ab.ca>]

"john corey" <joh-@westpole.com> wrote: 
original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/dq-rules/?start=25
> Agreed.  Let's agree on PDF for the final format, and PLAIN TEXT, for
> the working versions.  What do you say?

Sorry to be a stick in the mud but with plain text we lose any emphasis
that we want to add to text primarily Bold and Italics.  Also I always
have a problem with hard carriage returns and varying column widths
that tend to enter into documents.

It can make final layout hell when you have to remove those extra
carriage returns from every line. Rodger has some war stories about
that.  That is why I suggested RTF.  It allows for a minimum amount of
formatting (leaves bolding and italics intact) and it wraps so you can
more easily pour it into a layout package like pagemaker.

I believe that most word processors on most platforms support RTF.

Any other opinions?

John