Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes: > A bad one, empower the reader. Why are readers more important than authors? > The point of communication is to get your point across to the READER. For that, you need control over how the information is presented. > If you want to dictate the presentation to them then you are making a > big mistake. If that were true, then all teachers would teach in exactly the same style, since doing otherwise would be "dictating the presentation." > There is no such thing. As the RFC corpus demonstrates people want > headers, footers, page numbers. All of these can be in plain text. > Add those to 'plain text' and you have text that assumes a particular > output format. Dictating presentation, you mean? > Nope, it's a question of getting the programmer to take remedial lessons > in usability. If you are generating PDF, you're expected to know something about electronic publishing, and that includes the use of fonts. In Acrobat Distiller, embedding fonts is a simple menu option. > Programers who use the manual as an excuse for bugs should be fired. Authors who don't think that they have to know anything about fonts should stick to plain text. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf