On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Jeffrey Race wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:05:32 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > >2. anyone who thinks the ietf formatting requirements are not easy has > >not had to deal with very interesting formatting requirements. > > It may not be difficult but it is not trivial and it may well be beyond > the ability of most non-techies. Given that internet-drafts are intended to be technical documents, does this matter? (I think we need difficult hurdles like this as a constraint on applications area work.) L. > In my word-processor (don't ask) there are two ways to embed form > feeds and carriage returns in ASCII text files. I never even knew > this. > I had to consult the gurus on > the ap's discussion list to get the details. I still have to review, > test, view the resulting files in DEBUG, and finally format. This is > MANY hours of work. > > Not complaining, just so let it be written. > > Jeffrey Race <http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><L.Wood@ee.surrey.ac.uk>