[UCLP] Summery of course format options

[Steve Woodruff]

That sounds like it would be a good fit! I do agree that being able to
create styled formats from a basic .txt file, and then being able to offer
both to the public would be a great way to go.


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM, William Chambers
<william at bioselement.com>wrote:

> 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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