Re: Language Creation: The International Language Construction Bulletin (working title)

> Van:  Tristan McLeay
> Construction Bulletin (working title)
> > >PDF files are an example of something that may
> > > cause me to not to read something (all the tedious mucking about with
> > > reader annoys me),
>
> I'm the opposite, at least for some things. PDFs generally have better
> layout than webpages (unless they're generated from DocBook sources or
> the vermin who created them simply printed the HTML originals via the
> PDF generator).
I agree completely. For graphic sites etc. PDF is not suited, but for longer
texts (more than one page) which possibly require printing or storing
locally, such as magazines, journals, manuals, books etc. I prefer PDF over
anything else. Even tried downloading and storing a webpage with all its
linked images? PDF is all in one file, with fonts included. And with the
increase in transmission speeds, the size of PDF files (smaller than, e.g
Word documents) is not really a problem. Whether you view PDF in your
browser or download them view them locally, it is just a matter of taste.

> My understand is that you want to have it by request only because that
> means you can find out who wants it, right?
I find it a bit amusing to think that one can keep track of who gets one's
document when sending it over the internet. If the jounral is any good, it
will be forwarded by people to other people, others may publish it on their
websites, people using search engines may download tons of old issues
without you ever knowing etc. There is no way you can ever keep track of how
many people eventually get your journal. You might get an idea how many
people will get it first hand, but this is no indication of how many people
actually read it.

But as was said before, Christophe makes the journal, so he decides. But if
he won't even make the effort of putting it on a website so I can download
it on my own time, well... maybe it's just not worth reading it then?

Maarten (knowing that he is on the verge of pissing his friend Chrisophe off
majorly ;-) )

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