Date: Fri, 18 Nov 1994 16:37:38 -0500
From: Howard Kaikow <kaikow AT standards DOT com>
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs1 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Subject: Re: Tex etc (info file modes)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, kaikow AT standards DOT com

I haven't followed this thread, so what I say may already have been said.

I have dealt with the international standards community for many years (and 
I have the scars to show it). Making documents available in a form that can 
be used by all has no 100% solution. In any case, TeX is not the right 
choice as the PC implementations just take too much disk space and have been 
found to be difficult to set up. I loaded gTeX and emTeX just to be able to 
use the DJGPP documents, but that required much valuable disk space.

Like it or not, Word has become the editor of choice in many environments, 
however, not all other "editors" can input Word files, nor do they have to.

RTF can be input by Word, WordPerfect, etc. I believe that there are LaTeX 
to RTF converter, I'm not sure about Tex to RTF. Making the documents 
available in RTF, as well as TeX, could make most people happy.