[MCFA Int] Re: documents in e-mails

[S T Johnson <stuart@DROPMElps.u-psud.fr>]

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Just to add one last thought for people including
Word documents in emails: not everyone uses MSWord 
by default. I work from a Unix account and would
never normally have any call to use a PC or Word.
For me to read the recent attached Word
documents took considerable effort ftp-ing to a 
PC and then getting someone with Word to print 
them out; even then one of them failed to work 
completely. In my experience, in the Physics 
community and in Science journals at least, exchange 
of documents is always in Latex format. They are 
readable in plain text for anyone who can't compile 
them, and they are as far as I know not capable of 
transmitting viruses. 

I'm not suggesting Word users should switch to 
Latex, only that when people post such documents 
in future they may be making their ideas impossible
to read for some list members rather than easier.
I would suggest the most universally accessible 
route to a nice easily read formatted document is
just a link to a HTMLised version on a Web page.

stuart johnson

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Dr. S. T. Johnson                 stuart@DROPMElps.u-psud.fr
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides,  
Batiment 510,
Universite Paris-Sud,
91405 Orsay,                  Tel:+33.(0)1.69.15.53.06
France.                       Fax:+33.(0)1.69.15.56.54


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