Re: [rfc-i] Really not a poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 28 October 2020 02:09 UTC

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As I recall the original discussions, a bit more work is needed to avoid widowed
lines and split artwork and tables.

Regards
   Brian

On 28-Oct-20 12:44, HANSEN, TONY L wrote:
> You beat me to it, John! I was thinking of writing the same thing. :)
> 
> 	Tony
> 
> On 10/27/20, 7:34 PM, "rfc-interest on behalf of John R. Levine" <rfc-interest-bounces@rfc-editor.org on behalf of johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
> 
>     > As a reminder for those who have lost track, this thread was kicked off 
>     > by Toerless saying he would like to be able to render his own copies to 
>     > include a useful table of contents, for his own use, at home, probably 
>     > with the blinds drawn to keep the world from witnessing his shame.
> 
>     I remember back when the IETF was full of engineers who looked at a 
>     problem and wrote software to solve it.
> 
>     It took about an hour to write this:
> 
>      	https://github.com/jrlevine/pagerfc 
> 
>     It takes an unpaginated text RFC, adds page breaks, headers, and footers, 
>     splices the page numbers into the TOC, and since someone said it would be 
>     useful, puts the current section header into each page footer.  Sheesh.
> 
>     For demonstration only, your mileage and page numbers may vary.
> 
>     Regards,
>     John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
>     Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly 
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