On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 08:38:38PM -0400, John C Klensin allegedly wrote: > Actually, no, it is not more hassle. I've been using straight > emacs and its clones as my main I-D production/generation tool > for years. Paragraphs are easy, pasting in boilerplate is easy, > indention is easy, keeping track of section numbers and > references is a major (but necessary) annoyance, but pagination > (and per-page headers and footers are a significant annoyance > that involve little payoff. And there are huge advantages to > editing on exactly the document form the WG is looking at, > rather than having to transpose comments into some other > formatting setup that then generates the I-D format. I also get nothing out of ^Ls in our documents, or headers and footers. I wouldn't mind seeing them go. However, section numbers are critically important, and I think getting them wrong is the main danger of doing it all by hand.