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Graham Nelson wrote:

> > From skiprosebaugh@email.com  Tue May  1 21:32:31 2001
> > When I saw the announcement of the Designers' Manual, version 4, I was
> > initially full of much glee. Then I saw the file formats offered for
> > download: PDF, PDF, and more PDF. Eeeagh. I like many file formats. I
> > like PostScript. I like GNU Info format, since it's so handy on
> > Linux. I figure these will come eventually, but while I waited, I
> > decided to run the DM through a pdf>html filter I had lying
> > around. The Result: http://www.plover.net/~skip/DM4/
> Gosh, darnit, and there was me thinking it would be nice if it were
> just a PDF for a while, at least until people had got tired of the
> layout. (But I don't object.)  Perhaps we might next have a spoken
> word version, narrated by Ralph (the synthesised voice on Apple's
> SimpleText editor) and available for download via Napster?

Heck, I'd PAY for that.

Of course, I'd probably have to get a cable modem or something, since five
hundred pages would probably be quite a bit of audio...


