>> I hate PS files.!!!
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>I can and do produce html versions of papers that are mostly text, such
>as the `Update to the BMA Security Policy'. However, the Euroclipper
>paper has lots of equations in it, and if I converted it to html it
>would end up as hundreds of separate files - most of them images of
>mathematical expressions.
>
>> most PC users don't have PostScript printers
>
>You wouldn't be able to print this paper on a dot matrix anyway.
>
>The fact is that papers on cryptography and computer security are
>written in latex, converted to postscript, and disseminated that way.
>This is also the default in the rest of computer science, as well as
>mathematics and physics. We're not going to change because the current
>system works, and there's nothing serviceable to change to
>
>Ross
Problem: Postscript files
Solution: Acrobat files
Convert them to PDF and every platform can read them with a copy of the
free Acrobat reader from Adobe. If you can't convert them yourself, make
the PS available and some kind sould will do it for you.
(Lurking but still useful)
Baz
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