Re: and... text for the win

Charlie Perkins <charles.perkins@earthlink.net> Sat, 07 November 2020 14:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: and... text for the win
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>
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From: Charlie Perkins <charles.perkins@earthlink.net>
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Hello Carsten and all,

IEEE 802 editors usually use Microsoft Word, and their specifications 
are high-quality technical specifications.  So please be careful about that.

However, I hated it the whole time.  My own preference is to use a 
format and tool where features have predictable results (Word fails this 
test miserably).  Even .xml fails this test sometimes, in my experience 
and according to the mailing list discussions on xml2rfc.  I can at 
least understand what text is going to look like when it gets 
published.   And let me once again say thanks for rfcdiff.  Fabulous.

Regards,
Charlie P.


On 11/6/2020 9:55 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 2020-11-07, at 03:36, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>> In the other 99% of the world everyone exchanges MS Word documents.  I'm
>> certainly not saying that's wonderful, but it's reality.
> Hammer/nail.
>
> 99 % of the world is not collaboratively developing high-quality technical specifications, so I don’t care that much about those 99 % as a role model.
>