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[mailto:ietf-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org] On
Behalf Of Anthony G. Atkielski
Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:
A bad one, empower the reader.
Why are readers more important than authors?
Because they are your customers.
The point of communication is to get your point across to
the READER.
For that, you need control over how the information is presented.
No, the author can not possibly know the needs of the reader.
If you want to dictate the presentation to them then you
are making a
big mistake.
If that were true, then all teachers would teach in exactly
the same style, since doing otherwise would be "dictating the
presentation."
No, good teachers adapt their style based on the feedback they get from
their audience.
There is no such thing. As the RFC corpus demonstrates people want
headers, footers, page numbers.
All of these can be in plain text.
Once you add the headers and footers you no longer have plain text, you
have ASCII text in a device dependent markup.
If you are generating PDF, you're expected to know something
about electronic publishing, and that includes the use of
fonts. In Acrobat Distiller, embedding fonts is a simple menu option.
Enough people get it wrong to cause me problems reading their documents.
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