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Re: [Rswg] draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 29 October 2023 12:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rswg] draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams
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On Sat, 28 Oct 2023, Colin Perkins wrote:
> The entire point of this draft is that it doesn't require any change to the 
> RFC format. It doesn't need to be embedded into artwork, source code, media 
> types, or anything of the sort.

Sorry, but no.  For these things to be legible, they need to be 
wrapped in XML elements to say to preserve the line breaks and to display 
them in fixed pitch text.  By the time you do that, it's easier to wrap 
them in <sourcecode>, which has the added benefit of working with all the 
other tools people have to extract and manage sourcecode elements without 
needing an extra kludge to look for the special phrase.

So once again it seems reasonable to move the definition of the diagrams 
ahead, and leave the embedding methods for later.

R's,
John

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