--On Tuesday, 29 November, 2005 12:00 +0100 Brian E Carpenter
<brc(_at_)zurich(_dot_)ibm(_dot_)com> wrote:
...
Were there still regular use of nroff in the broad community,
there might be an argument in favor of continuing to have it
as the internal representation of authoritative rfc text.
But there isn't. Whereas xml2rfc has been gaining broad (and
enthusiastic) adoption.
The anonymous survey that I ran a few months ago, in case
people have forgotten,
appeared to show about 17% preferring nroff and 68% preferring
xml2rfc.
At the risk of stating the obvious, 17% is far too large a
number to support the claim that there is no regular use in the
broad community. One or two percent might be, but...
Disclaimer: Of all of the ways I have composed I-D and RFC text,
nroff has never been one of them -- this is just an observation,
not an attempt to defend a personal habit.
john
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