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From: Malcolm Cohen <malcolm@nag-j.co.jp>
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Hi WG5,

If we are really trying to shoot for FCD following the next meeting, we
should make the format of the next working draft as close as possible to
the ISO FCD format so that we are looking at the closest reasonable
approximation to the hopeful FCD and to avoid last-minute typesetting
glitches.

Obviously, the FCD will have no line numbers (but will have paragraph
numbers) and will be in A4 size. There might be other changes (header
and footer changes for example), such as identifying only by the ISO
reference number not the J3 document number.

Obviously the paper size setting will (slightly) inconvenience approx
half of the audience whichever is chosen; therefore my intention is to
use A4 (as required by ISO).

Not having line numbers doesn't really inconvenience me but I know some
people rely on them so my intention here is to retain line numbers this
time around in the hope and expectation that turning them off won't
introduce any glitches.

Hyperlinks are currently produced in blue colour; if we are going to do
any checking of the indexing and hyperlinking it is useful to have them
visibly different (at least on the screen), so I am tempted to leave
these as blue. However my intention is that this will absolutely be the
LAST TIME they will appear in blue - no way do I want to accidentally
send a multi-coloured document to ISO.

Any comments welcome.

Cheers,
-- 
............................Malcolm Cohen, Nihon NAG, Tokyo.

P.S. My personal opinion is that even with no technical changes we would
be better off with one more round of Working Draft so perhaps this is
premature; but the schedule currently aims at FCD after May...