Re: Offlang suggestion & counterproposal

En réponse à Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>:

>
> A good editorial staff should allow multiple input formats. Writers
> should
> worry about writing content, editors should worry about formats.
>
Yep, but that's only when you want to make a magazine. I'm talking about a
*journal*. That's something quite different.

>
> That would seriously diminish the flow of interesting articles send to
> the
> magazine.
Nope, since I *don't* want a magazine, but a *journal*, available both in paper
and electronic format. And it's something I can organise myself, but then I
have to ask people to write in a certain format, because I don't have time to
make the changes myself (though I could accept RTF and HTML, but since those
give much less possibilities than LaTeX, I don't see the point of it).

>
> > Despite its frightening looks, LaTeX is nearly as easy as HTML
>
> You consider HTML easy? Trust me, for many people HTML is a problem not
> to
> be overcome in a lifetime.
>
That's nonsense! If you can write plain text you can write HTML (and you can
write plain text since you can write mails). You just have to learn two
handfuls of tags to add to your text! Are you gonna tell me that it's something
some people can't do? It's even easier than using Word!

>
> The magazine now starts to sound like a simply laid out composition of
> rather long articles.
That's a *journal*, not a magazine! Let's make things straight too: I don't
care about a magazine. We just don't have the material to make such a thing
here. What would you put in it anyway?

 I do not see the benefit of that. I always skip
> the
> long posts on the list.
Well, then what's your point? By doing that you merely skip the posts the list
has been created for.

 What you propose is not "editing" it is merely
> "collecting" articles. A good magazine requires as much time beign put
> together as it takes writing the actual content.
>
Well, I think I have quite some experience on that to not need your opinion!
I've been chief redactor of a newspaper myself. I know how it works, and I know
that it's not what we need. If you're not interested in a conlinguistic
journal, then it's OK by me. Just don't give comments that miss the point
entirely.

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

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