Off topic document formats...

[Jonathan McDowell]

> so everyone is forced to send around Acrobat documents?  And buy Acrobat
licences instead of Word ones?  

Well, ps2pdf and /usr/bin/acroread are free...
I'm happy if you make it postscript or ascii, but PDF seems a reasonable
compromise that's ok for people in both the Windows and Unix worlds.
OpenOffice is still - at least for me - a continual struggle with
not-quite-adequate compatibility, slow printing, yucky interface,
and of course fails whenever MS updates Word. And I worry about .doc
documents on the twiki being reliably readable in the future.   

> how about posting as hmtl (sic)
Fine by me, although it's inconvenient to print a long document
all at once. 

> I'm sure we could find some way of using VOTable
Y'know, I was tempted to make this suggestion before, but 
manfully resisted... :-)

Indeed the IVOA standard for documents, so I understand, is html.
Perhaps this should be discussed more widely (in the standards
WG, or whatever it's called?)

In the meantime, perhaps I'll just post latex DVI files....
   Jonathan