RE: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Anthony G. Atkielski

> 
> Hallam-Baker, Phillip writes:
> 
> > A bad one, empower the reader.
> 
> Why are readers more important than authors?

Because they are your customers.


> > The point of communication is to get your point across to 
> the READER.
> 
> For that, you need control over how the information is presented.

No, the author can not possibly know the needs of the reader. 


> > 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."

No, good teachers adapt their style based on the feedback they get from
their audience.


> > There is no such thing. As the RFC corpus demonstrates people want 
> > headers, footers, page numbers.
> 
> All of these can be in plain text.

Once you add the headers and footers you no longer have plain text, you
have ASCII text in a device dependent markup.


> 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.

Enough people get it wrong to cause me problems reading their documents.


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