At 12:13 PM 11/22/96 -0500, Listserv Manager wrote:
>Contrary to the many postings so far, I prefer the Word document (or the
>postscript). For most of our folks, the nice formatting is not whipped
>cream and fudge topping. And it significantly cuts down on the size of the
>final product, in my experience (being able to use variable width fonts).
>Not to say that greppable text isn't nice :-)
 
The point is that if you're concerned about saving trees, you can open an
ASCII document IN ANY WORD PROCESSOR and simply format all the text
tighter, if you like.
 
Other data points:
The straight word document is 33% larger than ASCII (434 k vs 328 + k);
even if they were zipped, the ASCII zip is 109k, the Word 137k.
 
Philo
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