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Re: [xml2rfc] subsection failure

Robert Moskowitz <rgm@htt-consult.com> Thu, 23 April 2020 22:04 UTC

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On 4/23/20 5:49 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> It all must go before the subsection or be in its own subsection.
>>> yikes!
>> that was my feeling when I figured out i had to think about writing as:
>>
>> 2.
>>
>> stuff
>>
>> 2.1
>>
>>     more stuff
>>
>> 2.2
>>
>>    more stuff
> does not work when 2 is the introduction, as it is in this case

Change all my 2. to 1. and the same is true.

>
>> But I can kind of see it.  In that how can the reader, necessarily see
>> that 2.2 above ended and the following text is back to 2?
> indentation?  yes, i know.

We do not indent subsections.  Not our style.   ;)

In fact I have seen subsections 6 deep.  Think about how little space 
would be left for text with the extent of the left white space!

>
> randy

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