Re: [netmod] artwork folding: dual support modes?

[Martin Bjorklund <[e-mail]>]

Kent Watsen <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> > But note that figures in RFCs are normally indented with 3 spaces
> > (they _can_ be outdented, if the lines are long enough).
> 
> 
> The days of scraping from plain-text RFCs are over [1].  Extracting,
> if needed at all, should be from the XML, where there are no such
> issues. Extracting from the plain-text output makes about as much
> sense as extracting from the HTML or PDF outputs.

I am confused.  Are you saying that the unfolding algorithm only is
supposed to work on data extracted from the XML version of the I-D or
RFC?  If so, I think this needs to be clarified in the draft.


> Lossless extractions are critical for formal verifications (e.g.,
> doctor reviews, shepherd reviews, AUTH48 reviews).  Both the
> double-backslash approach we currently have, and the single-backslash
> approach we had originally (where the continuation-line begins on
> column 1, as it has been in programming languages for decades) provide
> lossless extractions.

... as does the single-backslash with leading space removal.


/martin



> 
> The double-backslash approach is ideal for when pretty-indents are
> desired.  The single-backslash approach is ideal for when the
> pretty-indents are not needed.  Both are completely valid and useful.
> My contention is that we unnecessarily threw out one when reaching for
> the other.
> 
> [1] https://pypi.org/project/xiax
> 
> Kent