Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? (was: Re: John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences)
"Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com> Wed, 28 October 2020 04:49 UTC
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From: "Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:49:28 -0400
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To: Jim Fenton <fenton@bluepopcorn.net>
Subject: Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ? (was: Re: John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences)
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Jim, Open any recent HTML RFC (such as https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8905.html) and take a look at the frame to the right of the text (on a phone browser, the TOC is a button at the top of the screen). Cheers, Andy On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 7:57 PM Jim Fenton <fenton@bluepopcorn.net> wrote: > [Yikes, this discussion is getting crossposted everywhere, it seems. > I’ll keep it brief] > > On 27 Oct 2020, at 16:36, David Noveck wrote: > > > The issue comes up with PDF files. Currently, you get page numbers > > together with a TOC that has no page numbers. I'm OK with a no-TXT > > option > > but I have a problem with a not-usefully-printable option for RFCs. > > When RFC 8689 was about to be published about a year ago, I had a chat > with the staff at the RFC Editor table in Singapore about this. It > seemed a little strange to have a table of contents without page > numbers, but if some people are reading HTML versions, PDF versions, and > TXT versions, the pagination is different anyway (and nonexistent for > HTML) so trying to reference something by page number is problematic. > References should be to section numbers, and if sections are so big that > it’s hard to find some text there, the author should really think > about structuring the document with smaller subsections. > > What does seem strange (and maybe it has changed in the past year) is > that the plain text and PDF versions have tables of contents, and the > html version does not. I would like for the html version to have a table > of contents with links to anchors for each section. > > -Jim > > > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020, 6:51 PM Phillip Hallam-Baker > > <phill@hallambaker.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Whooaah there... > >> > >> What is the status of this poll? I am all for moving from the > >> subjective > >> consensus model in which certain parties get a veto because their > >> opinions > >> are considered weightier than the rest of us. Objective measures of > >> consensus are good. But is this an official poll? What does it mean? > >> > >> But of course, as John K. pointed out, this is not actually an IETF > >> process. Only of course it is in every meaningful sense except > >> insofar as > >> IETF rules of the road apply. > >> > >> > >> Page numbers is not the hill I would choose to die on here. They > >> don't > >> work in HTML and the whole point of this process is that the TXT > >> documents > >> reflect very badly on the IETF as an organization. It spoke of an > >> organization that is stuck in the 1960s ranting on about how vinyl is > >> better than CD. > >> > >> There are serious issues with the new format. Not least the fact that > >> SVG > >> is not actually supported. The supported format is SVG/Tiny which is > >> an > >> obsolete format originally proposed back in the WAP days as a means > >> of > >> crippling the spec to fit the capabilities of the devices back before > >> Steve > >> Jobs showed us an iPhone for the first time. There are no tools that > >> produce SVG/Tiny, not even GOAT - I had to modify the source code to > >> comply. > >> > >> I don't mind retooling to support an improved specification. Having > >> to > >> retool to support an obsolete one is nonsense. > >> > >> > >> Anyway, how about as a compromise, authors can opt to suppress > >> generation > >> of the TXT version so that the page number issue doesn't come up at > >> all? > >
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- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… David Noveck
- Re: [rfc-i] Nothing like a Poll: RFCs with page n… John R. Levine
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Andrew G. Malis
- Re: [rfc-i] Nothing like a Poll: RFCs with page n… Martin J. Dürst
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… David Noveck
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Robert Sparks
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Carsten Bormann
- [rfc-i] Setting Reply-To Robert Sparks
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Jim Fenton
- Re: [rfc-i] FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page numbers (… Jim Fenton
- Re: [rfc-i] Setting Reply-To Derek Atkins
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … John C Klensin
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Warren Kumari
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Benjamin Kaduk
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Mark Andrews
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Mark Andrews
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Christian Huitema
- Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs wit… Adrian Farrel
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Leonard Giuliano
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … Black, David
- Re: [rfc-i] [irsg] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs wit… Jane Coffin
- Re: [rfc-i] Jim: Re: FIXED: Poll: RFCs with page … John C Klensin
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- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Brian E Carpenter
- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… John R. Levine
- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Brian E Carpenter
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- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Julian Reschke
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- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Julian Reschke
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- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Tony Finch
- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… John R. Levine
- Re: [rfc-i] [Rsoc] RFCs with page numbers (pretty… Tony Finch