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Intermediate site change

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I've restructured the sites and the menus, except for WaiSays. Everything is now under the header of WaiWorld, which means that will be the one site to remember or give to all your friends. ;)
The current situation is a temporary one. The plan is to restructure WaiSays and then change the design of the site.

In WaiDiet (In Short) I've added an article in english and dutch (office 2007 and pdf format) which gives an overview of the Wai Diet in a simplified way. I'm not totally happy with my english translation yet, but at least it's a start.

Any comments, criticisms, and/or advice is welcome! :)
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You are the best.
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Excellent!
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I'd like to suggest using an open format for your documents. Instead of making a pdf and a word doc pick one thing (for example just pdf) that is open and use it. Having to maintain redundant docs can lead to discrepancies unless you have some kind of master doc and a build system that generates the target files.

Are you familiar with latex or tex?

if not check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaTeX

I use tex for things like this and use pdf as my output.
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Post by Oscar »

I'm not quite sure what the benefit would be. At the moment I'm using Word (2007) to create/maintain the document, and when finished I export it to pdf as well. Of course I could just put the pdf's on the site, but I thought some people might like the Word version.
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I recommend avoiding proprietary solutions when so many great open source solutions are available and many times far superior. Latex is somewhat of a de facto standard for publishing scientific documents. It is really easy to use and is free you don't need to buy anything to use it.
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Post by Oscar »

I see what you mean. I will keep it in mind for future scientific documents (this isn't one anyway). How compatible is Latex with Word? Since most people can use Word and/or PDF, I thought I'd cover most/all needs.
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I use Latex for my resume and I create a PDF.

check out these sites for some reasons not to use MS Word as your standard for your master docs

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/opendocument/
http://www.rfc1149.net/documents/whynotword.html.en
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Post by Oscar »

Thanks for the info. :)

I don't really plan on writing many downloadable documents and as such I think it's a minor issue here anyway.
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