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

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Mon, 26 October 2020 16:40 UTC

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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 17:40:36 +0100
From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
To: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
Cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, WG Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>, RFC Interest <rfc-interest@rfc-editor.org>
Subject: Re: [irsg] Resending: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences
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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

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