Re: radical suggestion

Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 15 September 2002 18:54 UTC

Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 19:54:17 +0100
From: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
cc: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, ietf-822@imc.org
Subject: Re: radical suggestion
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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Keith Moore wrote:

> note that the amendments can still be useful in their own right, for
> people who are very familiar with the current spec - those people want
> to know the diffs from the previous version.

Surely the technology can deal with that? Way back in the 1970s IBM
used to use "change bars" on the right hand side to mark changed text in
its printed reference manuals. I still do this in the Exim manual, but I
haven't seen it commonly elsewhere. It's easy for text processors to do,
and it's visually very easy to spot when flicking through a text, either
on paper or on a screen. And it's easy to remove afterwards.

When DRUMS was actually active, I used to use "diff" on the different
drafts as the only easy way of finding out what had changed.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

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