>I believe having to deal with markup syntax poses a significant >barrier to those not as experienced as you. >From long experience, I can assure you that whatever you are used to seems obvious and natural, and whatever you aren't seems strange and difficult. I think nroff is swell, having been using it since about 1973, but on the rare occasions I show it to someone, their reaction is about what I'd get if they looked into my kitchen and saw a bunch of goat legs, a pile of coal, and a bellows. Lots of people use XML editors like bbedit and xxe. They're not my favorite, but they seem quite popular. Some of us weenies hand-edit XML, which is not noticably more painful than hand-editing nroff or any other text based markup language. (It's a lot easier than hand-editing RTF, though.) XML is clearly the future. The tools are way better, like saxon and xsltproc which use templates to turn XML into web pages or whatever else you want. (And no, running nroff source through troff isn't the same thing.) If you want to use nroff, that's fine, but it's really a dead end. R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf