I think the test is irrelevant<div><br></div><div>Caveman format is really difficult to produce. I have had people complain that it cost them $1000 to have a secretary produce a draft in that format.</div><div><br></div><div>
The fact that Word is not suited for authoring a ridiculous obsolete format is like saying that an iPod can't play 78 RPM records.</div><div><br></div><div>I think a lot of people are likely to use word if there is a reasonable production chain and not if there isn't.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I write many early drafts of documents in Word because there is outlining. Then I cut and paste into XML2RFC to produce caveman format.</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Joe Touch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:touch@isi.edu" target="_blank">touch@isi.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On May 27, 2012, at 4:47 PM, "John R Levine" <<a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com">johnl@taugh.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> Check the drafts collection for current usage.<br>
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> I went through and discarded multiple versions of drafts, leaving 10,064 .txt files, of which 190 contain the Word tag. That's 1.8%.<br>
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> So we've confirmed that Word users are an insigificant fraction of I-D authors. I'm done.<br>
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</div>Zero use XML<br>
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Or that's what a check would say. Oh, right, there's no such string for XML. But the word string is optional too.<br>
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First you complain it's just me, now it's at least dozens.<br>
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Joe<br>
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> John Levine, <a href="mailto:johnl@taugh.com">johnl@taugh.com</a>, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY<br>
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