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Re: Internet Draft Guidelines Require Precise Formatting?

2003-04-21 15:48:09
Most versions of nroff do not make it particularly easy to insert form
feeds but its trivial to do with a step of post-processing. I use nroff
and submit all my IDs with FFs.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Joe Abley wrote:

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:15:39 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley(_at_)isc(_dot_)org>
To: Ross Finlayson <finlayson(_at_)live(_dot_)com>
Cc: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Internet Draft Guidelines Require Precise Formatting?

On Monday, Apr 21, 2003, at 17:42 Canada/Eastern, Ross Finlayson wrote:

At 12:02 PM 4/21/03, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote:
Page breaks are highly desirable for I-Ds, because it makes it easier
for people to print them out.

Um, which software that takes a long text file *doesn't* put in page 
breaks as it sends it to the printer? This has been a standard part 
of nearly every word processing and text editing program for two 
decades now...

Indeed.  Why continue this archaic mid-20th century nonsense?

I, personally, will never waste a second of my own time inserting page 
breaks in any I-D that I write.

Do people really mark up internet drafts by hand instead of using tools 
like nroff or Dr Rose's rfc2629 tools?

If so, why?

If not, why does this list contain a thread about page breaks?


Joe