Re: Alternative formats for IDs

["Spencer Dawkins" <spencer at mcsr-labs.org>]

Agree with Barry that we need to balance things wisely.

If we are routinely taking up RFC-Editor resources for cosmetic reformatting 
of XML2RFC output, I'm thinking that this is not a good use of resources.

If someone submitted one XML2RFC input that triggered some XML2RFC boundary 
condition bug and caused a blank page to be emitted in the middle of a 
document, maybe it's "better" to quickly fix the output than to fix XML2RFC, 
but I'd really like to get to the point where there is no reformatting of 
XML2RFC output for most/all XML2RFC input files that were submitted for 
publication as RFCs.

Thanks,

Spencer

From: "Barry Leiba" <leiba at watson.ibm.com>


> Bob Braden wrote:
> > Suppose that we edit the document in XML (we are already
> > doing this part of the time), do a final nroffing pass to get the
> > format just right, and then give the author(s) the edited xml,
> ...
> > We have to make a new nroff version and
> > PUT THE SAME CHANGES INTO IT THAT WE DID THE FIRST TIME.
> >
> > Now, this may not actually be too bad; most of the changes at the nroff
> > stage are very cosmetic
>
> Maybe we're attacking that part of it the wrong way.
> What is it that makes those "cosmetic" changes, to "get the format
> just right", so important?  Do we really care whether there's an
> extra blank line, or the indentation is one character too much?
>
> When I run xml2rfc and look at the results, the formatting looks
> "just right" to me, at least for any value of "just right" that
> I care about.  Why does the IETF (or others) care for a greater
> value of "just right"?
>
> Or am I missing something basic in the formatting changes you're
> looking at, at that stage?
>
> Barry
>
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