On Sat, 13 Jul 2019, Nico Williams wrote:
Before XML we had roff, so we weren't in too terrible a place, but it wasn't very good either. Roff's is not a trivial learning curve either, and it sure doesn't look pretty, and very few people know roff. Not everyone will agree, but I find xml2rfc to be a step up from roff[*].
I love troff/nroff and use it for all sorts of stuff, but it is too low level. To do the kind of semantic tagging that is routine in xml, you have to use complex macros in an extremely disciplined way, and not many people can do that. We sure didn't.
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