Re: Footnotes/Endnotes: Have They Worked for Anyone?

From: Dom Lachowicz (domlachowicz_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 16:37:17 EST

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    Dom

    --- Mark Richardson <mrichard_at_usc.edu> wrote:
    > On Wednesday, November 26, 2003, Alan Horkan wrote:
    >
    > <snip>
    >
    > > If you were impressed by Abiword on a Zip disk you
    > might be even more
    > > impressed by abiword on a floppy disk.
    >
    > > I'd suggest making sure not to offer files in
    > Microsoft
    > > Word format (unless you absolutely must) and offer
    > the files in reasonably
    > > open standardised formats such as PDF, HTML and
    > provide Abiword (or even
    > > StarOffice/OpenOffice) format for those who wan to
    > have more easily
    > > editable versions of your files.
    >
    > > As you teach university level writing I have no
    > qualms whatsoever about
    > > instructing you in the etiquette details of
    > writing email.
    >
    > > If you are familiar with Unix the command line
    > utitlies style and diction
    > > might be of interest to help you to analyse
    > peoples writing
    >
    > Thank you very much for the leads and even more for
    > the (gentle) correction.
    > I'll follow up on all.
    >
    > One more question: Abiword, right now, meets most
    > all my needs with
    > remarkable stability, and I recommend it freely in
    > my *personal*
    > interactions with students. But would the developers
    > consider the current
    > version ripe for "recommendation" in some formal way
    > (on course syllabi or
    > on lists of, say, "recommended writing software")?
    > Or should qualifiers be
    > added to such recommendations? Or is there a future
    > milestone that we ought
    > to wait for?
    >
    > Sincerely,
    >
    > Mark Richardson
    >
    >
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