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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 05:54:19PM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > On Wednesday 12 November 2008 12:03, Aaron Trevena wrote: > > 2008/11/11 Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx>: > > >> Thought this would be of interest > > >> > > >> http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/11/university-challe > > >>nged-ditch > > >> > > >> I am an OU student, so it will be interesting to see what happens. > > > > > > Oops, sent to wrong place, anyway, yeah interesting development, they > > > already give out star office, but assignments need to be sent in .doc > > > format, > > > > Requiring that assignments are sent in .doc is nuts - unlike printed > > coursework, word/ooo/staroffice files can look completely different in > > different versions, and you can end up with a 20 page document that > > looks great on your computer looking a complete dogs dinner on the > > computer of whoever is supposed to read and mark it, the only > > reasonable format to accept would be PDF or postscript - and you can > > get free plugins on every platform for every word processor to do > > that. > HTML is even better as it doesn't force you into 'paper' choices, allows you > to focus on the information in the document and not the document itself. > The amount of formatting in a document is inversely proportional to the value > of its content. Then why not just use plain text? -- Benjamin M. A'Lee || mail: bma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ || gpg: 0xBB6D2FA0 Unix. Because rebooting is for adding new hardware. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html