RE: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-28 Thread Yaakov Stein
Marc I opened the link on two different devices, to see how the tables rendered. On one (iPod touch with Safari), it worked reasonably. The only problem was that the table columns were skewed due to browser not using monospace fonts. Were the table more complex or were there some truly wacky

RE: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-28 Thread Yaakov Stein
That would work too. I added a third URL that returns text/plain;format=fixed;line-length=72 http://ietf.implementers.org/fixed/rfc5928.txt That is the worst option for my two devices. On both devices the line wraps distort the tables beyond recognition. Y(J)S

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 01:52 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote: Marc I opened the link on two different devices, to see how the tables rendered. On one (iPod touch with Safari), it worked reasonably. The only problem was that the table columns were skewed due

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-28 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2011-11-27 17:20, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain ASCII. They are technically in a special format that I would call line-printer ready text file, and ASCII is the encoding, not the

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-28 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 01:58 AM, Yaakov Stein wrote: That would work too. I added a third URL that returns text/plain;format=fixed;line-length=72 http://ietf.implementers.org/fixed/rfc5928.txt That is the worst option for my two devices. On both

text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain ASCII. They are technically in a special format that I would call line-printer ready text file, and ASCII is the encoding, not the format. What is needed is: - - A mime-type for

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain ASCII. They are technically in a special format that I would call line-printer ready text file, and ASCII is the encoding, not the format.

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain ASCII. They are technically in a special

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 11:20 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: The problem here is that RFC and Internet-Drafts are not plain

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/2011 11:38 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, November 27, 2011 11:20 -0800 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: On 11/27/2011 10:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, November 27, 2011 08:20 -0800 Marc

Re: text/lp [was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again]

2011-11-27 Thread Frank Ellermann
On 27 November 2011 20:38, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: I'm willing to write up either an extension/update to RFC3676 or a new subtype if there is enough expression of interest (not just the two of us) to indicate that such a proposal would be likely to go somewhere. As Gmail web