> > The formal standards process is still targeted towards producing paper > documents and Ecma currently requires that these documents be delivered in > MS Word format and follow specific styling guidelines (there is what is > essentially an ISO standard for standards that we are supposed to follow). > > Ecma-262 is a complex document. Edition 6 is likely to exceed 300 pages. > While Word is far from perfect, it actually provides reasonable support and > tooling for documents of that size. It isn't clear to me how github would > help with such a document. While I have no fundamental objection to an HTML > based document and editing environment, I have no interest to reverting to > doing manual formatting markug. I moved beyond that technology around 1985. > I've yet to see HTML document tooling that addresses the WYSIWYG production > of documents of this complexity. It they are out there I would like to hear > about them. >
Thanks for the clarification and explanation :)
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