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Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Thu, 28 November 2019 19:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [art] New RFCs text formatting
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>, Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen@sdaoden.eu>, ietf@ietf.org
Cc: art@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
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From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
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On 28.11.2019 17:33, John C Klensin wrote:
> ...
> [1] The concern is about user-developed tools, used by one
> person or a cluster of people who have shared them, not ones
> developed or maintained under IETF auspices.

Do you have a concrete case of a tool that fails with the new format?

> [2] Reading RFC 7994 only after these changes were identified, I
> find that Sections 4.1ff remove headers and footers and the page
> numbers from the TOC.  But the introductory paragraph of Section
> 4 does say
>
> 	"One plain-text output will be created during the
> 	publication process with basic pagination that includes
> 	a form feed instruction every 58 lines at most,
> 	including blank lines."
>
> So perhaps that omission is a bug.

AFAIR, the intent was to *paginate*, nothing more (yes, no headers,
footers, no page numbers).

 > ...

Best regards, Julian

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