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Re: [Tools-discuss] pages numbers in ToC in PDF

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Fri, 28 May 2021 00:20 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca>
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Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> wrote:
    > However, looking at RFC 8995, at
    > https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8995, there are rendering for HTML,
    > TEXT and PDF.  HTML and TEXT have no page numbers, PDF does.
    > Personally I find the Text version without page number (on pages and
    > TOC) ugly and not very useful.

I found reading YANG diagrams, CDDL and other figures without page breaks was
refreshing.
But, the HTML version is generally much more pleasant.

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