John/rsoc: Re: Page numbers in RFCs questions / preferences

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

Hi John/RSOC,

Could you please explain why RSOC does not want to permit the ability
to have paginated RFC output options ? Also, where and when was this
discussed with the community ?

Thank you!
    Toerless

P.S.: Thanks, Henrik

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 06:11:12PM +0100, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> 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
> > 
> 




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