Re: [Tools-discuss] question on how to add to the tools pages

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Thu, 21 July 2005 23:05 UTC

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Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> 
>>Below; sent to the list as an FYI:
>>
>>---
>>
>>Template for Internet-Drafts and RFCs for WinXP MS Word 2000+
>>
>>* The Internet Draft that describes this template and its use.
>>http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/draft-touch-msword-template-v2.0-03.txt
>>
>>* The template itself (.dot file).
>>http://www.isi.edu/touch/tools/2-Word-v2.0.template.dot
>>
>>* The Perl post-processing script (works under cygwin on WinXP).
>>http://www.isi.edu/touch/tools/2-Word-post-v2.0.pl
>>
>>* The change log.
>>http://www.isi.edu/touch/tools/word-template-changes.txt
> 
> 
> I've added these to http://www1.tools.ietf.org/author-tools - 
> please check that the text works for you.

Looks fine to me.

>>---
>>
>>Feedback on the template would be appreciated, as well. I'd like to lock
>>this down and issue as an individual RFC soon (unless there is a WG
>>through which it could/should be vetted - if so, please let me know).
> 
> I don't know of a WG which should vet this - the closest would be the
> tools team (which isn't a WG) - but we don't currently have this on our
> charter, so as far as I'm concerned, you should just go ahead and publish
> when you feel it's stable.
> 
> I don't use MS word for draft production myself, so can't comment on the
> templates and tools, except that the absolutely most common indication I
> have of somebody using MS Word for draft production is the occurrence of
> quote characters outside the ascii character range.  But I suspect you've
> taken care of that in your post-processing script a long time ago :-)
> 
> 	Henrik

Yeah - the script actually does a bunch of translations (quotes,
hyphens) *and* checks for any ASCII chars that are out of range anyway.

Thanks,

Joe
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