> -----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. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf