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Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format
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Mike Warren |
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Re: [Bug-gnupedia]Submissions in Word Format |
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30 Jan 2001 08:24:36 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) |
"Hook" <address@hidden> writes:
> No Mike, it isn't. However, the Microsoft extras *are* proprietary.
> Particularly their own font definitions, their own style sheets [..]
There are standards for dynamic fonts and style-sheets. Unless Microsoft
wanders from these (quite likely, but I've never looked at the HTML from
Word) then there's no problem. If they *do*, then the non-conforming bits
can be ignored.
> You can't take a stance against MS Word and then accept blindly the
> specific, no-free version of HTML which the provided conversion tool
> gives.
Non-free, or just hard to convert? I'm not sure if MS can claim
ownership over their ``extensions'' to HTML or not...
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