Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

[Stewart Bryant <stbryant at cisco.com>]

Tim Bray wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum<iljitsch at muada.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > A much better solution would be HTML, if it's sufficiently constrained. HTML
> > allows for the reflowing of text, solving issues with text and screen sizes.
> > It's also extremely widely implemented, so it's easy to display reasonably
> > well without special tools. It also allows for semantic tagging, allowing
> > for easy scraping.
> >     
>
> This seems obviously true everywhere outside the IETF mailing list.
>   
The showstopper has always been with figures which need to do in 
separate  files.
How do you  manipulate the collection of files as a single object?

At least with pdf you know you have the whole thing.

Stewart