Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 01:39:38PM -0700, Bob Braden wrote: > > It would be good if RFC authors put atleast as much care into the > > clarity and organization of their contents as you are devoting to a > > discussion of the formatting. The contents are what matter, and fancy > > formatting may (or may not) be a distraction from the more important > > issues of contents. > > I fully agree, and it is why I was so vexed by Donald Eastlake's > inital claim that the I-D and RFC format is "plain ASCII". > > In my view, we have an actual serious problem in that there is an > increasingly high barrier to I-D submission because idnits has a large > number of rules, nearly all of which are about formatting. When I submitted my very first I-D last November, it took me about 10 minutes to fix the few issues that idnits reported. If you have significantly more problems, then maybe you are using the wrong tool to write I-Ds. Try NRoffEdit. It will take care of many of these issues for you. :-) As previously mentioned, I gave up on trying to _install_ xml2rfc one hour after downloading it. I was writing the third page of my I-D one hour after downloading NRoffEdit. -Martin _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf