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From: Dimitri Fontaine <[email protected]>
To: Dave Coventry <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Cognitive dissonance
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 11:38:56 +0200
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Dave Coventry <[email protected]> writes:
> Formatted text, whether PDF, HTML or (heaven forbid!) Word Documents,
> is easier to read than unformatted plain text, and those of us without
> the OP's very admirable proficiency in vi remain at the mercy of the
> various readers and their associated search functions.
>
> However, I sure that it's not too arduous a task to extract the text
> in these documents and strip them of their formatting?
>
> Or am I missing something?

Info documentation format. Text based, super user aware, easy to
browse and search, has an index.

You can even produce postgres.info today, it's just not optimised to be
very friendly, it's missing mainly convenient table support and
index. 

Regards,
-- 
dim

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