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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 01 December 2019 20:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
To: "Scott O. Bradner" <sob@sobco.com>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Cc: rfc-interest@ietf.org, ietf@ietf.org, moore@network-heretics.com
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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On 01.12.2019 21:36, Scott O. Bradner wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 1, 2019, at 3:33 PM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 02-Dec-19 08:09, John Levine wrote:
>>> In article <1a1726cf-70a0-019d-1138-c5e22f258d4d@network-heretics.com> you write:
>>>> I thought the format was a compromise between US Letter format, A4
>>>> format, and printers.
>>>
>>> I thought it was 72 characters because that's how many you got on a
>>> punch card, leaving 8 for the sequence number.
>>
>> Keith is right and it was one of Postel+Reynolds's wiser decisions. The only case where it goes wrong is with software or printers that fail to recognise the FF (form feed) character correctly.
>>
>> Phill is correct that it wastes some white space; that's the price of fitting into both paper sizes. When I print drafts, which is rarely, I do it "booklet" style which limits waste paper considerably.
>>
>> As we discussed 3 years ago, numbered pagination is useful in a printable format but irrelevant in a screen-only format.
>
> except for references - section numbers are frequently far too far apart when you want to point someone to a particular
> chunk of text
> ...

That's why in the new format, paragraphs get numbers, too. (in HTML,
where it really matters).

Best regards, Julian (ducks)

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