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Re: A sad farewell

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Fri, 06 November 2020 01:22 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 17:22:15 -0800
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Subject: Re: A sad farewell
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
Cc: Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
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I was pointing out a fundamental. It doesn't help that authors can submit
documents in other forms than XML if authors get back comments, suggestions
in another form.  Using Git to manage document edits also implies you've
agreed to the input format.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 4:59 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:

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>    - Any document workflow that requires a manual format conversion at an
>    interface with a review function fails miserably because the comments are
>    made on the processed output and don't map back readily to comments on the
>    author's source.
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> Do you know any publication system that places no restrictions on input
> format?  Or do I not understand what you are asking.
>


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