On Wed, Jan 28, 2026, at 10:24, Eric Rescorla wrote: > The RPC shall define an input format for mathematical notation and > requirements for enhancing xml2rfc to translate that input format into > the output format defined in Section XYZ. That input format shall be > based on pre-existing defined mathematical notation input formats.
I agree regarding the general sentiment, but I think that this group is somewhat constrained in terms of what we can mandate as a matter of policy. The way to thread that needle is to make this a suggestion in the implementation guidance section and not use "shall", so maybe: > The RPC is also advised to consider input formats that will be used to author > documents. > Any input format will need to be documented and integrated into authoring > tools, > which will need to be able to generate the different output formats as needed. > Reusing established mathematical notation input formats is strongly > recommended. (We did discuss this, but failed to write it down. The natural conclusion here is some variant of LaTeX, but I think we need to stop just short of mandating that, as you did.) -- rswg mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
