Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required
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Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required



Hi -

> From: "Stefan Santesson" <stefan at aaa-sec.com>
> To: "Donald Eastlake" <d3e3e3 at gmail.com>; "IETF Discussion Mailing List" <ietf at ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 3:42 PM
> Subject: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required
>
> How do you translate the .nroff formatted document to a readable text
> document?

One of the advantages of nroff input is that it *is* human readable.  (To me
it seems much easier to read than HTML, but that's not the issue here.)
To generate formatted output (in a variety of possible formats) the freely-
available groff program works well.

> Can emacs do that for you?

I don't know.  I prefer vi.

Randy


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