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Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sat, 27 February 2021 05:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] assuming that period (.) ends a sentence is sometimes wrong
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Am 27.02.2021 um 03:44 schrieb Daniel Kahn Gillmor:
> The toolchain to build draft-ietf-openpgp-crypto-refresh produces XML
> that contains:
> …
>            <li>PGP - Pretty Good Privacy.
> PGP is a family of software systems developed by Philip R. Zimmermann from which OpenPGP is based.</li>
> …
>
> xml2rfc renders this to text as:
>
> …
>     *  PGP - Pretty Good Privacy.  PGP is a family of software systems
>        developed by Philip R.  Zimmermann from which OpenPGP is based.
> …
>
> It looks like it is assuming that a period (.) ends a sentence, and that
> two spaces should follow each sentence.  It is correct about the . after
> "Privacy", but it is wrong about the . after "R". :(
>
> This is kind of a dumb nit-pick, but it was noticed during a review on
> the mailing list.
>
> Is there a recommended way to fix this?  What XML input would produce a
> .txt with only one space after the "R."?
> ...

The simplest possible fix would be to remove the code in xml2rfc
altogether. At some point, the former RSE announced that this would be
the case for text output, but for some reason, this plan was never
written down and executed.

Changing the source to work around the issue in one specifc formatter is
not cool in the first place.

Adding a non-breaking space here will have the desired effect in plain
text output, but will affect other output formats as well.

What *might* be possible in this case is to put the author name into a
<contact> element. (Haven't tried that though).

Best regards, Julian

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