[ncc-services-wg] Pre-PDP discussion: "All RIPE documents should be plain text"
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Richard Hartmann
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Fri Mar 15 23:05:20 CET 2013
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Tore Anderson <tore at fud.no> wrote: > It was just one example. Another would be ripe-566, which has a couple > of tables. Sure, you can create an ASCII art tables, but doing so and at > the same time everything below 72 characters of width might not be > easiest thing in the world. A future document might want to include some > other figures or other external content which cannot be (easily) > represented in plain text. The various TeX flavors can generate PDF/A. I understand that this would add complexity for people who need to create PDFs. Which may be a benefit overall as this would result in a stronger incentive to use plain text. All this while still allowing easily diffed collaboration on text files in all cases. > Because once that PDF is the authoritative version it's hard for someone > else to come along and make changes to it later. Fair point; see above. > Reasonably, if you keep the amount of markup to a minimum. The point > after all isn't to get RIPE documents that are glitzy AJAX Web2.0 HTML5 > interactive stuff, just to allow for the inclusion of basic figures, > tables, images and a minimum of formatting. Even then, fonts may get lost over time; that will not happen with PDF/A which embeds all fonts. I am not saying we need eternal docs that always look the same, but it would be nice to have and as we are debating redoing things anyway.... Richard
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