regarding your comments on proposed media type text/troff' toInformational RFC

[Larry Masinter]

I wish you would reply and say why you think your proposal
(put processing instructions in a parameter) is better than
what I recently proposed as an alternative (put processing
instructions in a comment in the body).

MIME parameters tend to get lost when the MIME bodies are
pushed through most file systems. MIME parameters are hard
to set up for HTTP servers; it's difficult to configure
them to emit widely variable processing instructions, e.g.,
if you were to have several different text/troff files,
each with different processing instructions.

If don't REALLY intend for the processing instructions to be
handled automatically, and you REALLY intend for humans to read
and interpret them, you're better off bundling them inside
the body anyway.

Larry
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