>> The TXT versions do not print on my printer and have not printed >> reliably on any printer I have ever owned.
>I discovered by accident that, on my machine, simply opening a >text version in Microsoft Word gives a document which prints >properly, page breaks and all. (10 point Courier I think.) >Maybe not a purists' solution, but good enough to allow me to >move on. Until about 5 years ago I could open an RFC or ID in a simple text editor and press print. But I no longer have a "simple" editor on my machine. The closest I have is Microsoft's "Notepad" which defaults to larger fonts and margins. It breaks every line into 1 1/2 lines, making the text close to unreadable, and the printout about 3 times the number of pages. I use Word sometimes, but I need to do more work. After forcing the file to be opened in Word, I have to perform a "select all" and change the font to Courier and the size to 10. (If I don't change the font to a monospace one all the artwork is undecipherable.) Then I have to make the top margin smaller - the default top margin makes a break just before the footer, so that a print out has every other page containing only a footer at the top and otherwise blank (the page break IS understood). I used to be able to go into page preview mode and fix things up for printing in a WYSIWYG fashion, but that no longer works in the newer version of Word. So, the argument that the format we use is future proof is still holding up. I indeed CAN still print an RFC on my machine, but it does take a lot of work. I would not be surprised if with my next machine I would find it impossible to print correctly using any of the standard utilities provided, and that I would be forced to write a program to do so. The machine after that will probably not have any languages I know, and I hope that the IETF will be able to provide (free of charge) a viewer with printing option. Y(J)S _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf