Robert Spier wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 07:38:28PM -0500, Ken Fox wrote: > | ... Powerpoint would be a better choice since everybody > | has to deal with that format anyway. > > Please, no! Powerpoint is one of the few formats which > cannot be easily read on a non Windows or Mac system. Any > raster graphics format, or PDF. Or all of the above.
Brent Dax wrote: > Ken Fox: > # Ideally we should have something with the quality of > # PerlGuts Illustrated and the simplicity of ASCII. > > I'd suggest PDF or PostScript for most, and a GIF or something for > those who can't read the main format. Sorry I wasn't clear. Definitely PDF or HTML+PNG are the choices for viewing. I was wondering about *editing* them. IMHO all the data structures in Parrot must be documented as beautifully as PerlGuts Illustrated. Parrot is evolving quickly though and needs documentation that is easy to update. "dia" is probably a worse choice than Powerpoint -- just count the number of people who have an editor able to make changes to those formats. I've heard of several non-Microsoft solutions for editing Powerpoint too. I'm not a fan of Powerpoint, but it does seem to be a de facto structured graphics format. - Ken
