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Re: Document diffs... Re: A sad farewell

Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Fri, 06 November 2020 16:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: Document diffs... Re: A sad farewell
From: Joseph Touch <touch@strayalpha.com>
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:42:06 -0800
Cc: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>, Pete Resnick <resnick@episteme.net>
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> On Nov 6, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> wrote:
> 
> My tool, RFCTool can accept input in Word, or Markdown or both. It is open source and runs on OSX, Linux and Windows.

Typing XML in Word is not really Word (E.g., references, anchors, tag data, etc.). 

IMO, the point of a Word template is to have it be able to edit and print drafts as they would be seen by users AND to allow use of Word’s internal cross-reference capability. 

Joe

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