On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 6:11 AM, t.petch <[email protected]> wrote: > > I notice some ADs/WG chairs using this and while it gets converted to good > ole ASCII when it is archived, I would like to be able to read it > earlier in the process. >
To allow people to read versions of documents throughout the development process, export to ASCII/PDF could be suggested/encouraged/required when versions of documents are shared with others. Given a dozen authors, one may find a dozen different authoring environments using a half-dozen or more word processing, markup, or typesetting applications. Even with that diversity, all of the documents can (likely) be distilled down into a tidy set of PDF/A files. If interoperability is required for shared editing of documents, then I agree that formats like ASCII or plain HTML might be more widely supported than a format such as Word binary (.doc) or OOXML, but for just shared viewing of documents, I believe that PDF/A will serve very well. --R _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
