Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences

[Henrik Levkowetz <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

xml2rfc currently supports pagination of .txt output for drafts, but not
for RFCs.  This is a limitation originally requested by the RFC editor, in
the specification for the v3 text formatter work for RFCs.

A couple of months ago, prompted by multiple requests for the ability to
produce paginated .txt output for RFCs, I asked for permission to enable
pagination also for RFCs, but in the end the RSOC answered that they did
not want to make it possible to generate paginated .txt output for RFCs.

John Levine should be able to give further information.

I'd be perfectly happy to add the ability; given that it's available for
drafts it's trivial from a technical viewpoint.


Best regards,

	Henrik

On 2020-10-26 17:40, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> Thanks, Ben. 
> 
> Then i guess it shouldn't be too hard for the tools team to
> offer at least on tools.ietf.org beside the existing formats one
> with e.g.: text with pagination...
> 
> I guess i'll have to ask Henrik how best to proceed.
> 
> Cheers
>     Toerless
> 
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 09:28:14AM -0700, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 04:02:41PM +0100, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>> > Is there any reason why the tools team would not be able to produce
>> > a rendered version that does incude page numbers ? PDF and txt ?
>> > Call it RFC classic format ?
>> 
>> IIRC the xml2rfc tool already supports the pagination functionality with a
>> command-line argument, so you can make your own right now.
>> Unfortunately, I was unable to find the exact incatation in the mail
>> archives within the time I allotted for searching.
>> 
>> -Ben
>