On 29-Nov-19 08:05, Julian Reschke wrote: > 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). What I care most about is to have a side-by-side diff format as useful as rfcdiff produces. From a practical point of view, that has been the greatest benefit of pagination and fixed width font for many years now. The ability to print on a line printer or a Diabolo hasn't been important for 25 years or so. Brian
