On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 22:27 +0000, John Levine wrote: > PDF is a fine display format, but it is a rather poor editing format > since it's hard to do any more with PDF (even PDF/A) than either to > print it or to extract the text from it. XML on the other hand is a > putrid display format but it is easy to edit and is coded in ASCII so > even if the tools decay the document is still recoverable. I would > say that the alternative to ASCII would be a pair of documents, RFC > 2629 XML input and PDF output, with the PDF being optional since it > should be possible to regenerate it mechanically from the XML. > > Word is of course out of the question since it is proprietary, > undocumented, and unstable. I hope we have consensus on that. Agreed. The input draft should be in the form of XML converted to display formats of PDF, HTML, or plain text. Would Unicode need to be excluded from the Plain Text version of the draft? Would the plain text version be dropped? With XML, there could be elements that allow different character repertoires that can be excluded from the plain text version. -Doug _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf