Re: I-D/RFC source formats
James M. Polk wrote: At 03:20 PM 4/8/2005 -0400, Bruce Lilly wrote: On Fri April 8 2005 13:55, Francis Dupont wrote: > BTW IMHO the best tool should be so painful that > I-Ds would be very small (:-)? The size of the boilerplate alone precludes that, unfortunately. And it gets worse next month when the secretariat stops accepting "he" (or "she", as the case may be) as an alternative to "he or she" in that boilerplate. I don't understand this point, can you expound on it for those of us that don't know about it? See http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01093.html Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
Re: I-D/RFC source formats
At 03:20 PM 4/8/2005 -0400, Bruce Lilly wrote: On Fri April 8 2005 13:55, Francis Dupont wrote: > BTW IMHO the best tool should be so painful that > I-Ds would be very small (:-)? The size of the boilerplate alone precludes that, unfortunately. And it gets worse next month when the secretariat stops accepting "he" (or "she", as the case may be) as an alternative to "he or she" in that boilerplate. I don't understand this point, can you expound on it for those of us that don't know about it? cheers, James *** Truth is not to be argued... it is to be presented ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
I-D/RFC source formats
On Fri April 8 2005 13:55, Francis Dupont wrote: >and intuitively OpenOffice doesn't seem likely either. > > => to prefer emacs to OOo is a subtle way to like open source (:-). OOo is one of those that I mentioned doesn't seem to be able to generate formatted plain text with appropriate parameters (in addition to apparently not being able to generate RFC-specific XML). > => nroff is not so bad. The problem is the community which supported it > moved to Latex many years ago... Oh? One of the reasons that I haven't used TeX (and things like LaTeX which are layered on it) is the difficulty of getting suitable plain text output. > BTW IMHO the best tool should be so painful that > I-Ds would be very small (:-)? The size of the boilerplate alone precludes that, unfortunately. And it gets worse next month when the secretariat stops accepting "he" (or "she", as the case may be) as an alternative to "he or she" in that boilerplate. > PS: what we need is a rfc2xml. It seems there is a secret rfc2nroff... Going from formatted RFC or draft to troff source is fairly easy. As text will be re-flowed into paragraphs, it's mostly a matter of inserting the right directives between paragraphs, for section headings, etc. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
