How do you translate the .nroff formatted document to a readable text document?
Can emacs do that for you? /Stefan On 09-07-01 9:10 PM, "Donald Eastlake" <d3e...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just do my drafts in nroff and edit with emacs. > > Donald > ============================= > Donald E. Eastlake 3rd > d3e...@gmail.com > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Stefan Santesson<ste...@aaa-sec.com> wrote: >> To respond to the original question. >> >> For what it is worth, I have written a simple and free tool in java for >> editing (and viewing) drafts using nroff, which I find a lot easier and >> convenient than XML. >> >> It's available from: http://aaa-sec.com/nroffedit/index.html >> >> Source is available upon request. >> >> /Stefan >> >> >> On 09-06-28 6:33 PM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <iljit...@muada.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> XML2RFC isn't working for me. >>> >>> For instance, We are now required to use boilerplate that the >>> "official" version of XML2RFC doesn't recognize so it's necessary to >>> use a beta version that is even more undocumented than the regular >>> undocumentedness of the "official" version of XML2RFC. Of course such >>> things tend to only surface the day of the cutoff. >>> >>> I used to write drafts by hand sometimes in the past, but this is also >>> very hard, because today's tools just don't have any notion of hard >>> line endings, let alone with spaces at the beginning of all lines and >>> hard page breaks (at places that make no sense in an A4 world, too). >>> >>> This is getting worse because the checks done on IDs upon submission >>> are getting stricter and stricter. >>> >>> See >>> http://www.educatedguesswork.org/movabletype/archives/2007/11/curse_you_xml2 >>> r. >>> html >>> for a long story that I mostly agree with. >>> >>> As such, I want to see the following: >>> >>> - the latest boilerplate is published in an easy to copy&paste format >>> - drafts may omit page breaks >>> - drafts may omit indentation and hard line breaks >>> - no requirements for reference formats >>> >>> Note that this is for drafts in general. If the RFC editor wishes to >>> impose stricter formatting rules I can live with that. >>> >>> Please don't reply with helpful hints on how to work with XML2RFC. >>> Even with a perfect XML2RFC I would still be forced to create XML, >>> which is something I desperately long to avoid. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Ietf mailing list >>> Ietf@ietf.org >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Ietf mailing list >> Ietf@ietf.org >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf >> > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
