I may not have put this as clearly as I intended. When I spoke of having PDFs and plain text files, I meant to address that to final, finished versions of things.
For draft versions, and works-in-progress, plain text can be nice, since it is easily shared from one platform to another, but the limitations of tables and other formatting do become apparent. Word files are ubiquitous to many, but when dealing with cross-platform issues (PC/Mac) and different versions, it can be difficult.
--RT
Edi wrote (in part):
I have been a supporter of using text files and .PDFs as a way of making information as widely available to others as possible. Those are the two formats that I think the undertakings of this group should be made available. (Drafts can circulate in other formats, but realize that you may be cutting some people out by doing so).
It's probably good policy, as those are platform independent. Whatever
stuff I will produce will be in OO and I'll make the Word and text
formats also available to get good coverage, that way most people should
be able to view them. OO also has the advantage of being a
cross-platform application.
There is also the point that if something that is adopted as the
community standard, having it in PDF is advantageous, because then it'll
be set in stone and modifying it will require constructing a new
version, so if people want to tweak it for their own campaigns, the
other formats can be used for that while an official version stays fixed.
Edi