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

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Wed, 28 October 2020 13:32 UTC

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

On 2020-10-28 14:22, Ted Lemon wrote:
> If the functionality you are referring to here is putting section and
> paragraph numbers in the header, I don’t think there’s any reason not
> to do it since these are the internal pointers that had consensus.
> 
> If the functionality you are referring to is page numbers, we already
> discussed why that is not in the IETF-provided tool.

No, I don't think so.  I believe all the arguments were germane with
respect to publishing RFCs with / without page numbers, but not with
respect to letting the tool have a switch to produce a format with
page numbers.

	Henrik

> 
>> On Oct 28, 2020, at 07:18, Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020-10-28 00:33, John R. Levine 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.
>> 
>> Umm.  So why is it OK to provide this functionality as a script, but not OK
>> to make xml2rfc able to do it?  I'm not talking about the RFC Editor publishing
>> paginated text, I'm talking about permitting xml2rfc to do what you've just
>> provided a tool to do.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>>    Henrik
>> 
>> 
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