I also suspect that those most likely to complain and express preference for a plain text publication are not part of the target demographic.
Brian.
-----Original Message----- From: comproj-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:comproj-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Walter Vermeir Sent: 03 February 2009 22:47 To: Discussion list for the Communication Projects Group Subject: Re: [ComProj] Newsletter
Ziko van Dijk schreef:
I prefer plain text, easy to layout, easy to print. Ziko
I am personally also a plain text enthusiast. But regarding about easy layout; also with plain text you can easy break the layout with incorrect line breaks and to much or to few blank lines. When I send out the DE or ES edition of Wikizine that is not made by me I almost always need to fix that type of mistakes.
And at least in gmail plain text newsletters do not look good.
But if the target audience is the wider population I think there is no other choice then to go html. For ID Wikizine is that version published on the wiki; http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikizine
and then copy&pasted in an email and send to the mailing list. And I find the result surpizingly good looking.
Walter