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Re: Printing IDs and RFCs (Was: Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-29 15:06:15
Hi Yaakov,

on 2005-11-29 16:17 Yaakov Stein said the following:
Henrik

Anyway, I've added text-to-pdf conversion for all RFCs and IDs under
the URL http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/,
so you can get pdf- conversions of our various documents.  

<snip>

Comments welcome.

Well, I have only one comment. This is great!
A simple script written once, saves effort time and again.

My only remaining wish is one that I have regarding the ID listings in
general,
namely that one has to know the updated version number
(in general I start at the last one I remember and start incrementing
until I get one that pops up).

It would be great if I could write 
http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-pwe3-satop
and it would automatically determine that the latest version is 03
and redirect to 
http://tools.ietf.org/pdf/draft-ietf-pwe3-satop-03.pdf

Right.  The equivalent functionality is already implemented for the
html-conversion case (http://tools.ietf.org/html/) where you can
do exactly what you describe (except it fails to correctly choose
between draft-ietf-pwe3-satop and draft-ietf-pwe3-satop-mib - this
is a bug I'll have a look at later).

You can try out

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-pwe3-tdmoip

or for the plaintext document,

  http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-pwe3-tdmoip

and it will do the right thing, and get you the latest version.
  

I'll add this to the PDF conversion tool too, but I'll try to do it
as a general mechanism, so you won't see it in place tonight.

I'll also add cross-links between the different formats, providing
a link from the html format of a document to the PDF format, but
that's a little bit further down on the TODO list currently.


Regards,

        Henrik

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