Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

Sorry for becoming aware of this thread a bit late.  More below:

On 2019-11-29 06:22, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 11/28/19 11:33 AM, John C Klensin wrote:
> 
>> Hi.  I realize it is very late, probably too late, to be
>> complaining about this, but my clear recollection was that, when
>> the v3 project was started, the community was promised that,
>> while the authoritative/ canonical/ archival format would shift
>> to the XML and fully-functional HTML and PDF format (not just
>> HTML and PDF produced from plain text forms) would become
>> available, the plain text format would be preserved sufficiently
>> that tools [1] that were designed for, and used with, RFCs for
>> the last 40-odd years would continue to work and work equally
>> well [2].
> 
> FWIW, I also recall this promise, at least being made verbally.
> 
> I hope it's not too late to fix this.

The xml2rfc default setting for v3 text output for drafts is to paginate.

There's an option to turn off pagination for drafts.

Text output for RFCs is currently always unpaginated.

During development of the v3 text output it's been very clear, from the
specifications and also when I asked the RFC-Editor if the matter of
pagination had been reconsidered, that pagination of RFCs was not to be
done.

If being able to generate paginated text output for published v3 RFC XML
files is desirable, I'm happy to add a switch to do that.


Best regards,

	Henrik