[UCLP] Summery of course format options

[William Chambers]

Steve,

This is my major reasoning for supporting AsciiDoc as it's a pure UTF-8
Text document with simple markup added. For example an AsciiDoc header
might look like this.

Header
------

In my opinion I think this is the best solution because we have the
basic .txt format for those who want/need it and we have the
styled .html, .pdf and .xml formats for those who want something a bit
more advanced. It's kinda a best of both worlds approach. This also
negates the need for .odt which would, in my opinion be far more work
then they're worth.

-- 
William Chambers <william at bioselement.com>

On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 19:11 -0500, Steve Woodruff wrote:
> I would strongly lean to an option that has good styling and
> formatting capabilities. I feel that these courses need to be a bit
> more exciting and interesting to read than an encyclopedia. However, I
> think offering a plain text (.txt) version would be able to reach the
> greatest amount of people successfully. I would propose to use a
> combination of the two by offering the styling and user-friendliness
> of .odt as our main format. All courses would be offered in .odt
> format, and this would be what the majority of people would use. Then
> we would create 'backups' of all our courses as .txt and offer them to
> people as an option who either can't or don't want to use the .odt
> version. Obviously, this would mean slightly more work, but to take an
> existing .odt file, and export it as a plain text file shouldn't be
> that hard. This way, we would reach anyone who's interested in our
> courses - the people who like styled and formatted guides, as well as
> people who are trying to look up this information on a cellphone, or
> other means that wouldn't support that format. Let me know what you
> guys think. I'm just throwing this out there, and I'm not sure how
> feasible this would be, but just wanted to share my opinions in the
> name of brain-storming.
> 
> Steve
> (swoody)

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