Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format

[Imran Ghory]

On 29 Jan 2001, at 9:26, Alexander Braun wrote:

> But this is not the point. If you allow to send doc-files, they have
> to be converted. They have to be converted for the mere technical
> reason, that doc-files can't be viewed on the web. If we have to
> convert them we could use some tools, e.g. catdoc for very rudimentary
> support or StarOffice which has a quite nice converter. But the
> question is still the same: is it useful to invest so much time in the
> handling of proprietary formating, if it is no real challange for the
> author to click on the "save as..." button. 

I'm not saying that we should go out of our way to support propriety 
software, just that if there is demand to allow use of that format and 
a converter for that format already exists, then there is no reason 
why we shouldn't use it.

Imran