Yaakov, While I support the general idea behind the experiment advocated in this draft, in fairness, your statement below is just your version of what John said. To see how complex a set of equations might be easily shown in text, see http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/facts/faq04.html. Rocket science, I believe they call it. :-) So your statement boils down to "extremely inelegant" which is just another way to say "uglier." -- Eric --> -----Original Message----- --> From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] --> On Behalf Of Yaakov Stein --> Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 3:34 AM --> To: John Levine; ietf@xxxxxxxx --> Subject: RE: I-D ACTION: draft-ash-alt-formats-01.txt --> --> --> > If the goal is to allow prettier output while still --> maintaining the --> stability and reusability of plain text, that practically demands an --> input format that is plain text underneath --> --> No, the goal (as stated in the ID) is to enable normative --> drawings and --> equations that are --> not possible or extremely inelegant in plain text. --> --> Y(J)S --> --> _______________________________________________ --> Ietf mailing list --> Ietf@xxxxxxxx --> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf --> _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf