Have a look at Dave Mills recent remarks on the NTP list : https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/ntpwg/2009-June/001519.html
Due to his diminished eyesight he can't handle the text of the document he is co-authoring without significant preprocessing. Y(J)S -----Original Message----- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Melinda Shore Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 02:23 To: Randy Presuhn Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required Randy Presuhn wrote: > I don't know. I prefer vi. You can run nroff on a buffer inside of both vi and emacs and get the output in another buffer. I've read internet drafts on a variety of handheld devices, from the old Sharp Wizards to Palm Pilots to a Blackberry, and I very much appreciate having a lowest-common-denominator document format. The only drawback has been the fixed line length - it can be slightly annoying for text but it renders ascii graphics completely useless on a narrower screen. On balance I think it's a reasonable tradeoff, though. And personally, I'm grateful that such a wide variety of tools can be used to generate conforming drafts - I think that it helps keep the process just a little more open. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
