anti-word

[Amanda Lee]

Because Word is designed for idiots!

Couldn't resist that one!

Amanda Lee

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: anti-word


> Because everyone sitting in Word can perfectly easily retrieve a .txt or
> .html without knowing they did it.
>
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gregory Nowak wrote:
>
> > Why do you say it isn't necessary to write word documents when that
format is being used widely in the work place and academic settings today?
> > Greg
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 09:47:31AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > > On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Dave Hunt wrote:
> > >
> > > > ... It's called "antiword", ...   It
> > > > cannot write MS Word files.
> > >
> > > It isn't necessary to write MS-Word, it's only necessary to read it
> > > correctly. Users of Word can read text or HTML perfectly well.
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > -Dave
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
>
> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
>
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
> http://www.openebook.org
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