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. <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:20 PM, William Chambers <<a href="mailto:william@bioselement.com">william@bioselement.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- <div class="im">William Chambers <<a href="mailto:william@bioselement.com">william@bioselement.com</a>> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5">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) </div></div> -- Ubuntu-Learning mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-Learning@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-Learning@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-learning</a> </blockquote></div>