Text in D article

[Daniel Keep]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> I really don't like .rtf or .doc (long, painful history with those two),
>> and .txt would probably destroy all formatting.  I usually write stuff
>> in reStructuredText, but just didn't on this occasion.
> 
> I usually send articles around for review in .txt format, that way
> everyone can read them. After all the reviews are done, then I format it
> into html (using Ddoc) and put up the web page.
> 
> The problems with sending around text files in non-text format attached
> to postings are:
> 
> 1) the discussions always seem to focus on how to read the files, rather
> than their content
> 
> 2) when the posting gets archived, the content of the non-text format
> becomes inaccessible (it isn't searched by google, either)
> 
> That said, I think it's great you're working on a good article on
> strings in D. It'll be very helpful.

Usually I write up stuff in reStructuredText which is basically plain
text with markup that can be read without running it through a
formatter.  In this case I didn't because... I'm not really sure why.  I
think it was just because OOo has a better spell-checker than Vim :P

I might try dumping it out to a text file and see what happens...

Also, thanks for the response.  Let me know if you think there's
anything I should include :)

	-- Daniel

-- 
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make sense.

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