Fixed font v multiple fonts

Melinda Shore mshore at cisco.com
Sun Jul 6 13:47:21 CEST 2003


> Well, I'm currently working both in the IETF (one fixed width font) and
> in the GGF (as many variable fonts as you want). I find IETF documents
> substantially easier to deal with. They are much smaller, which is an
> immense advantage when you are on the road or on a lousy hotel wireless
> network. They are much easier to discuss on mailing lists by trivial cut 
> and paste. Even the diagrams can easily be cut, pasted, and updated. 

This line of discussion has, as we've seen repeatedly,
extraordinarily high likelihood of becoming very
unproductive very quickly.  If there's a real problem here
aside from differences in personal preference, let's put
some text to it and move on, otherwise let's just move on.

Melinda


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