Re: [Tools-discuss] mangled ToC in RFC 8784

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]> wrote:
    > On 2020-10-28 19:21, Paul Wouters wrote:
    >>
    >> Hi,
    >>
    >> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8784
    >>
    >> This RFC seems to have a mangled ToC that cannot be clicked at.
    >>
    >> Is that something that can be fixed?

    > Probably yes.  The biggest stumbling block is that with the current
    > un-paginated RFC text format, there is nothing or not much to distinguish
    > ToC lines from start-of-section lines later in the document, which is
    > an issue for the regex-based (~ stateless) htmlization script.

    > The line of spaced dots between section name and page number in earlier
    > ToCs were used to identify ToC entries.

    > I think I can figure out a way to deal with this, but it will require some
    > coding, testing, and a new release of my htmlization lib.

I gotta ask if it's worth fixing?

Maybe we need a new output option for xml2rfc that produces this text-like
output that we seem to prefer.  Or maybe it's just a CSS variation?

(For along time, I've prefered the tools htmlized pages: they were the best
for pulling offline onto a tablet for reading.  The apps that I used for
doing that have rotted, and COVID has made that less interesting)

The RFC editor copy of HTML looks great, and it links to that, and the ToC
works there.

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