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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