Re: [Rfc-markdown] [xml2rfc] Imaginary vspace?

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 21.06.2023 23:29, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> On 21. Jun 2023, at 22:50, Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>> It's kramdown-rfc that adds the vspace.
>>>> Use of `-----------` in line 74 is the line that adds the space.
>>>> I couldn't find any documentation on kramdown-rfc about adding vspace this way.
>
> In markdown, `———` on a line of its own, surrounded by vertical blank space, is a horizontal rule (<hr in HTML).
> (There are a few similar syntaxes to do the same [1].)
>
> There are no horizontal rules in RFCXML, so I used this syntactic element to indicate a page break, which has a similar separating function in paginated documents to what you would be trying to achieve with a horizontal rule in HTML.
>
> The way to effect a page break in RFCXMLv2 was to do a large vspace (e.g., with 999 lines).
> This is what you see here.
>
> RFCXMLv3 does not provide the author with functionality to influence page breaks (*), so the v2v3 converter we employ to generate RFCXMLv3 throws out the page break (and correctly indicates in a warning that it is simply not doing as told).
> ...

Out of curiosity: is there a good reason why it still emits a mix of v2
and v3?

Best regards, Julian