RE: Do drafts need to pass IDnits to be posted?

["Eastlake III Donald-LDE008" <Donald.Eastlake at motorola.com>]

I use nroff and the meta information isn't ever parsed properly for me.
At a minimum, the submission tool can't figure out where the Abstract
ends and grabs stuff through the page footer and next header and claims
it is part of the abstract. So I have to edit the meta data. Of course,
I'm not aware of any documentation of how the tool parses out the meta
data.

Donald

PS: No problem with ToC, all my drafts have one.

-----Original Message-----
From: wgchairs-bounces at ietf.org [mailto:wgchairs-bounces at ietf.org] On
Behalf Of Randy Presuhn
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:43 PM
To: Working Group Chairs
Subject: Re: Do drafts need to pass IDnits to be posted?

Hi -

I'm curious why people think using nroff to generate a document
should cause any difficulty with automatically generating a table
of contents.  It wasn't a problem for any of the nroff-source i-ds /
RFCs I've edited over the years.

Randy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mary Barnes" <mary.barnes at nortel.com>
To: "Alexey Melnikov" <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>
Cc: "Working Group Chairs" <wgchairs at ietf.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 8:03 AM
Subject: RE: Do drafts need to pass IDnits to be posted?


Thanks for the response. Then I wonder if the tools folks can add
support for nroff?  Just a thought, since I would imagine you are not
that small of a minority that work in that mode still? 

Mary. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexey Melnikov [mailto:alexey.melnikov at isode.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 10:04 AM
To: Barnes, Mary (RICH2:AR00)
Cc: Working Group Chairs
Subject: Re: Do drafts need to pass IDnits to be posted?

Hi Mary,

Mary Barnes wrote:

>Finally, out of curiousity, why are folks still finding the need to 
>submit manually?  Are there issues with the tool that need to be 
>addressed? Or, is there anything unusual about your document. I ask 
>because we still have authors submitting manually, as well, within our 
>WG, so I would like to understand the motivations for NOT using the 
>online tool (which I think is fabulous).
>  
>
I have a document in nroff format. It was rejected by the web submission
tool due to lack of TOC, which is annoying, but Okeyish.
This lead to manual submission, which was rejected due to lack of TOC...