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[Carter Butts]

W Isaac Carroll wrote:


> I think there are several supplements that will wind up being fleshed out as I
> work on this RG. The Machines MRS, for example, is one that I've been
> interested in for a long time, and I'd love to get some real solid work done
> on it.


That one would be particularly useful, I think; we had a lot of odd 
early ideas vis a vis trying to apply blockmodeling in some fashion, but 
  didn't finish fleshing these out.  I will send you a file with some 
primitive notes of mine on this....

> 
> I intend to set up a dialog here on the AR-List. I will periodically post
> revisions on my web site of what I'm working on, and solicit feedback. All
> list members are invited to pull down a copy to tell me their reactions and
> possibly suggest alterations or additions. Since I have no experience as an
> author, it will be a big help to me to have "wise readers" for my work.
> 


Sounsd good.


> BTW, as far as file formats go, what should we standardize on? I have MS Word
> 2000 as well as the usual complement of unix tools. I want to make sure I'm
> not excluding potential collaborators by my choice of format.


For my part, I'm a Linux user, so Word is not optimal for me. 
Personally, I use LaTeX these days for just about everything for which 
ASCII is overly limiting, but distributing LaTeX files is probably 
nonoptimal for others.  One possibility would be to use HTML, since this 
is A) universal, and B) fairly readily recoded into other, more 
layout-friendly, languages.  Or you could just offer us PDFs, and we 
could send you our notes as text.  Do others have thoughts on this?

-Carter