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

Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Mon, 04 March 2019 15:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] artwork folding: dual support modes?
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> 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.

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.

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

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