Re: Alternative formats for IDs

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> writes:
> Right.  And I've heard authors gripe that they wrote their books with 
> state-of-the-art distributed systems and version control, but because 
> the publisher's typesetting was done on a different, incompatible 
> system, the copy-edit changes were not fed back into the authors' 
> system, making any second edition much more difficult.

Fair enough, but consider that this problem already exists in the
RFC-Ed system because the RFC-Ed's final version is in a set
of tools that almost nobody uses. This includes many nroff
users, btw, because the RFC-Ed's nroff is too primitive to
really edit with yourself.


-Ekr

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