Most versions of nroff do not make it particularly easy to insert form feeds but its trivial to do with a step of post-processing. I use nroff and submit all my IDs with FFs. Thanks, Donald ====================================================================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd dee3@torque.pothole.com 155 Beaver Street +1-508-634-2066(h) +1-508-851-8280(w) Milford, MA 01757 USA Donald.Eastlake@motorola.com On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Joe Abley wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:15:39 -0400 > From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org> > To: Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live.com> > Cc: ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Internet Draft Guidelines Require Precise Formatting? > > On Monday, Apr 21, 2003, at 17:42 Canada/Eastern, Ross Finlayson wrote: > > > At 12:02 PM 4/21/03, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > >>> Page breaks are highly desirable for I-Ds, because it makes it easier > >>> for people to print them out. > >> > >> Um, which software that takes a long text file *doesn't* put in page > >> breaks as it sends it to the printer? This has been a standard part > >> of nearly every word processing and text editing program for two > >> decades now... > > > > Indeed. Why continue this archaic mid-20th century nonsense? > > > > I, personally, will never waste a second of my own time inserting page > > breaks in any I-D that I write. > > Do people really mark up internet drafts by hand instead of using tools > like nroff or Dr Rose's rfc2629 tools? > > If so, why? > > If not, why does this list contain a thread about page breaks? > > > Joe > > >