On 28.11.2019 17:33, John C Klensin wrote:
... [1] The concern is about user-developed tools, used by one person or a cluster of people who have shared them, not ones developed or maintained under IETF auspices.
Do you have a concrete case of a tool that fails with the new format?
[2] Reading RFC 7994 only after these changes were identified, I find that Sections 4.1ff remove headers and footers and the page numbers from the TOC. But the introductory paragraph of Section 4 does say "One plain-text output will be created during the publication process with basic pagination that includes a form feed instruction every 58 lines at most, including blank lines." So perhaps that omission is a bug.
AFAIR, the intent was to *paginate*, nothing more (yes, no headers, footers, no page numbers). > ... Best regards, Julian
