On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Tim wrote: [snip]
I still have word processor documents stored in about 6 or 7 unreadable formats on various discs. About my only chance of conversion, with layout, is scanning and OCR. If I just wanted content, and didn't mind re-laying out the content, I could save as plain text. It really is a stupid situation to still be in.
This is one reason why I prefer the tex/latex model of typesetting documents, and avoid Office.
My LaTeX documents, written in the beginning of the '90, will probably compile under today's tex/latex without any modifications. If not -- changes to only few lines should be enough to redeem most documents (there is no problem in doing the modifications since the latex source is just plain ascii file). Which means that I could always read the document's _contents_.
Itay
