Plaintext downloadable material

Swift · Joined: 27 Nov 2009 Posts: 4 Location: Iceland

How about making the material available in plaintext? Tab, semicolon or otherwise field seperated lists would make it easy to import into practice software.

spurrymoses · Joined: 24 Apr 2005 Posts: 371 Location: Sydney, Australia

Hi

My current decision is to leave this sort of transformation up to the individual.

I get requests for all sorts of formats and I don't have enough time or bandwidth to create & maintain them all but also I feel the site would become a kaleidoscope of format downloads - which really doesn't fit with my whole purpose for making it.
I want the site to be a place of interactivity & learning, not of raw downloads.
Lastly, I need it that way for the miniscule advertising revenue I get, which pays for the site.

I understand the need, but I feel I must resist & I'm happy to let someone else create formats from my lists for everyone to download.

PS the last sentence contains reference to "I" or "myself" 5 times - in Japanese, it would be 0. How unnecessarily repetitive is the English language?

b414213562 · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 4:50 am Post subject:

Swift, so far I've found it very easy to copy/paste the tables into Microsoft Excel, which can then save into comma or tab delimited files.