> no, I do not have a copy of MS Office on either of my machines, so it is not "
> accessible to everyone", but that is not my point). As an example, RePEc is
> constructed from templates documenting each (paper, article, software package,
> book, chapter, person, institution) stored in PLAIN TEXT ASCII FILES with filetype
> .rdf. You would not believe the fraction of times that maintainers say "our stuff is
> ready, will you check it out" and they have created (often using Word as a text editor)
The Word document would be converted to pdf file before being upload
to ssc. I should
have clarified that point.
Roy
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