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Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 03 December 2019 16:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: Handling HTAB in artwork/sourcecode, was: [art] New RFCs text formatting
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
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On 03.12.2019 17:34, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On Dec 3, 2019, at 17:27, John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> wrote:
>>
>> Helpful but, if we are concerned about what the final output
>> looks like, wouldn't it be easier to have authors just convert
>> HT to the widths they prefer and to modify the nits checker to
>> notice their presence?  And for the RFC Editor to be sure that
>> none of them make it into final output?
>
> Yes.
>
> It seems to me Julian’s code was simply providing the error message in the form of a red U+2409 «␉», so you can locate the HT if you don’t have an appropriate editor program.
> ...

Right.

xml2rfc in v3 mode should just give proper diagnostics and/or abort
processing (right now it seems to just replace the TAB by multiple TAB
characters, which is clearly not what the spec is requiring).

Best regards, Julian

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