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Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth

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Albert van der Horst wrote:

>>I'm about 60 pages into re-typing the whole thing into Microsoft word.
>>If I ever get around to finishing (it won't be this season, while the
>>weather is nice) then I'll turn it loose to anyone that wants it. I'm
>>assuming, of course, that Dr. Ting would have no objection to me doing
>>this. I have made attempts to contact him, but emails have just vanished
>>into the ether. No way of knowing if they get to him or not. I could
>>maybe try and contact him through SVFIG.
> 
> That is horrible! Imagine we have to salvage our cultural heritage
> by retyping all those books. I can understand you use Word. That
> guarantees that in a couple of decade this action has to be
> repeated again.

With Thinking Forth, we used ORC (needs a bit of proofreading), and 
typesetted in LaTeX.  Even if LaTeX markup would disappear, it is still 
close enough to plain text so that re-typesetting in whatever other markup 
language will be possible.

-- 
Bernd Paysan
"If you want it done right, you have to do it yourself"
http://bernd-paysan.de/

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C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-08 13:49 +0000
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Richard Owlett <rowlett@pcnetinc.com> - 2013-06-08 09:27 -0500
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-08 09:43 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-08 17:18 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-08 17:22 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-08 10:24 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth "Ed" <invalid@invalid.com> - 2013-06-09 13:49 +1000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-09 10:38 -0700
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2013-06-08 23:12 -0400
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-08 20:46 -0700
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-11 02:09 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-11 10:03 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-11 15:19 +0200
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-11 08:32 -0700
        Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Coos Haak <chforth@hccnet.nl> - 2013-06-11 17:45 +0200
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2013-06-11 23:16 -0400
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-11 14:03 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-11 07:19 -0700
        Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-11 14:32 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-11 08:34 -0700
        Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-11 16:13 +0000
          Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-11 10:24 -0700
            Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-11 17:37 +0000
              Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-06-11 11:02 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2013-06-11 08:14 -1000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-13 05:20 -0700
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-11 07:53 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-11 16:04 +0000
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Roger Ivie <rivie@ridgenet.net> - 2013-06-11 14:25 -0500
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-11 09:46 -0700
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> - 2013-06-11 17:11 +0000
  Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth dont.spam.usenet@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) - 2013-06-13 13:28 +0200
    Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth dont.spam.usenet@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) - 2013-06-13 22:50 +0200
      Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-14 01:26 -0700
        Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bill Richards <billrich@gmx.com> - 2013-06-14 08:50 +0000
          Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-06-14 09:38 +0000
            Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-06-14 03:23 -0700
          Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth dont.spam.usenet@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) - 2013-06-14 12:19 +0200
          Re: C.H. Ting systems guide to FIG-Forth Bernd Paysan <bernd.paysan@gmx.de> - 2013-06-14 14:22 +0200

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