---- Original Message ----- From: "TZI" <cabo@xxxxxxx> To: "t.p." <daedulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Peter Saint-Andre" <stpeter@xxxxxxxxxx>; "Marc Petit-Huguenin" <petithug@xxxxxxx>; "Yaron Sheffer" <yaronf.ietf@xxxxxxxxx>; "ietf" <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Language editing > We really do need a tool, the like of which I was using 40 years ago > when writing code, that allows patches to be applied independently that's what pull requests (or gerrit) are about. > and > temporarily to see what it then looks like and if agreed that it looks > good, incorporating them permanently into the source (XML). Ideally > such a tool would reverse engineer the amended text into XML patches as > well - text is so much easier to work with than XML (or any other markup > language). try writing the draft in markdown and using Miek Gieben's or my tool (kramdown-rfc2629) to convert into XML. it is so much easier to collaborate in markdown... <tp> Right, but the context is that after many years and several rounds of editing, the I-D is ready for Last Call and someone who may not have been previously involved in the editing goes through and proposes enhancements for legibility. It needs to be an available on the IETF website tool and easy enough for many to use without much education. Tom Petch Grüße, Carsten