An alternative would be for some xml expert to fix xml2rfc to parse through
the xml output of Word. If that happened, then the configuration options
described in RFC 3285 would allow for wysiwyg editing, and I would update
3285 to reflect the xml output process. I realize that is a vendor specific
option, but it happens to be a widely available one.
Tony
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Theodore Tso
Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:23 AM
To: Yaakov Stein
Cc: Dearlove, Christopher (UK); Iljitsch van Beijnum; Phillip Hallam-
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Subject: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:00:48AM +0300, Yaakov Stein wrote:
I would not be surprised if with my next machine I would find it
impossible
to print correctly using any of the standard utilities provided,
and that I would be forced to write a program to do so.
The machine after that will probably not have any languages I know,
and I hope that the IETF will be able to provide (free of charge)
a viewer with printing option.
There may be specific deficiencies with specific operating systems
that no longer no how to print ASCII documents, in which case IETF
might need to provide (or at least point to) a viewer/editor with a
printing option. As it stands today there are plenty of simple text
editors that are available for Windows; they aren't provided by the OS
provider, so they're not installed by default, but they certainly
exist --- and, due to the simplicity of the RFC series' archival
format, they certainly would not be hard to provide.
- Ted
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