On Monday 30 Apr 2012 11:30:23 Gour wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:51:42 +0100 > > Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1ists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Heck, I save my documents as .txt for secondary backup purposes. I > > wish I knew that when I was a teenager doing work for school at 3AM > > and Word lost everything spectacularly well. > > Heh...similar lesson when I was workin on OS2 with Lotus Word Pro (or > how it was called)...saved one day, was not able to open it next day and > since then I said: "No more binaries documents!" and that's have we did > embrace LaTeX/LyX etc. > > > Sincerely, > Gour You are very correct, master documents should always be plain text. The generated documents can be binary however. Also, there should be a fallback system where the plain text documents are used rather than binary documents so that the faults in generator do not affect the bootability of the system. -- Jayesh Badwaik stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
