Re: [xml2rfc] RFC-draw, a python application to make SVG and ASCII-art diagrams for RFCs

Kesara Rathnayake <kesara@staff.ietf.org> Tue, 07 November 2023 09:41 UTC

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From: Kesara Rathnayake <kesara@staff.ietf.org>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:41:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] RFC-draw, a python application to make SVG and ASCII-art diagrams for RFCs
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Hi Nevil,

You should probably send this to the tools-discuss mailing list for a wider
audience [1].

[1] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tools-discuss

Cheers,
Kesara

On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 04:08, Nevil Brownlee <nevil.brownlee@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> Hi all:
> To answer the question "how do I make an SVG diagram that conforms to
> RFC7996", I've created a python program called rfc-draw, using python's
> interactive environment, tkinter.
>
> The current (v1.0) version is on github, i.e. at
> https://github.com/nevil-brownlee/rfc-draw
> rfc-draw lets you draw your diagram on-screen, and save it to an rfc-draw
> data (.rdd) file.  From that .rdd file you can make an svg version, and
> also an ASCII-art version.
>
> Brian Carpenter pointed out that I could also make xml2rfc <figure>, with
> both ascii and svg versions, from a .rdd file, so I've implemented that as
> well.
>
> When you have time to do so, please download a copy from
> https://github.com/nevil-brownlee, and see what you think of it.
> I'm happy to fix any problems you may find, and of course suggestions for
> improvements are welcome!
>
> Cheers, Nevil
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> Nevil Brownlee, Taupo, NZ
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