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From: helbig@man.ac.uk (Phillip Helbig)
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Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.1807) Word or PDF for distributing WG5 documents
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Van Snyder wrote:


> Lawrie Schonfelder wrote:
> 
> > Everyone can read pdf, the reader is freely available, but you need 
> > relatively expensive prorietry software ... to create it.
> 
> pdflatex is free.  I would be very surprised if there is no Windows
> version of it.

Ahhh, but you're assuming everyone uses LaTeX.  Personally, I think 
LaTeX etc is the best system---it runs on every platform and produces 
efficient, platform-independent output and can easily be converted to 
PostScript, PDF (with working hypertext links), HTML etc.  However, WORD 
proponents are unlikely to know LaTeX.