An alternative would be for some xml expert to fix xml2rfc to parse through the xml output of Word. If that happened, then the configuration options described in RFC 3285 would allow for wysiwyg editing, and I would update 3285 to reflect the xml output process. I realize that is a vendor specific option, but it happens to be a widely available one. Tony > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Theodore Tso > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 6:23 AM > To: Yaakov Stein > Cc: Dearlove, Christopher (UK); Iljitsch van Beijnum; Phillip Hallam- > Baker; IETF Discussion Mailing List > Subject: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required > > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:00:48AM +0300, Yaakov Stein wrote: > > I would not be surprised if with my next machine I would find it > impossible > > to print correctly using any of the standard utilities provided, > > and that I would be forced to write a program to do so. > > > > The machine after that will probably not have any languages I know, > > and I hope that the IETF will be able to provide (free of charge) > > a viewer with printing option. > > There may be specific deficiencies with specific operating systems > that no longer no how to print ASCII documents, in which case IETF > might need to provide (or at least point to) a viewer/editor with a > printing option. As it stands today there are plenty of simple text > editors that are available for Windows; they aren't provided by the OS > provider, so they're not installed by default, but they certainly > exist --- and, due to the simplicity of the RFC series' archival > format, they certainly would not be hard to provide. > > - Ted > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf