[rfc-i] Pagination and the xml2rfc v3 vocabulary // comment on Publication Formatter SOW

[masinter at adobe.com (Larry Masinter)]

Isn?t the main reason for not investing in tools to let authors control pagination directly is that the process of RFC production (removing RFC-editor ?NOTE? for example, or just fixing punctuation) will likely cause some cases of change of pagination, so authors putting direct page breaks is likely to fail.

Whatever markup is added needs to not make things worse if pagination changes.


I sent in a comment on the Publication-Formatter SOW that perhaps I should have sent to this list?




Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 11:31 AM
To: "'iaoc-tmc at ietf-bids.org<mailto:'iaoc-tmc at ietf-bids.org>'"
Cc: Tony Hansen, Leonard Rosenthol, Matthew Hardy
Subject: comment on Publication-Formatter-SOW-04


1.  Publication Formatter
                <https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/Publication-Formatter-SOW-04.pdf>

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hansen-rfc-use-of-pdf
notes there are different requirements for xml2rfc processing for Internet Drafts and for RFCs.

Requiring support of the tool for Linux, Windows and Mac and the exact same tool for I-Ds and RFCs will substantially reduce the options and may make it difficult to meet all requirements.

I suggest reviewing the requirements, and noting that the tool(s) might be different, or different variations or configurations.

In particular:

I-D tools should run as a service, primarily, with command line production of PDF as a ?nice to have? for all platforms.  Perhaps as  a modification of the I-D submission tool to submit an XML, get back a PDF to review & approve.

RFC Editor tools should be required to run on platform RFC editor has, which might reasonably be limited to compatibility with one of Windows, Mac, Linux, but not necessarily all three.

Larry
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