Re: XML2RFC must die, was: Re: Two different threads - IETF Document For

On 5 Jul 2009, at 20:52, James M. Polk wrote:
> At 09:38 AM 7/5/2009, Colin Perkins wrote:
> > On 5 Jul 2009, at 14:24, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> > > My apologies for the subject line. I'm very disappointed that the
> > > silent majority of draft authors isn't speaking up. I can't imagine
> > > that the vast majority of draft authors has absolutely no problems
> > > with XML2RFC. So I'm assuming they've been ignoring the thread,
> > > hopefully the new subject line will get some of them to chime in. If
> > > that doesn't happen I'll shut up and try to figure out why I have so
> > > much trouble with something that nobody else finds difficult.
> > I have no significant problems using xml2rfc, and find it easier to
> > write Internet-Drafts using xml2rfc than I did using nroff, LaTeX, or
> > Microsoft Word.
> >
> > I also appreciate the added consistency in Internet-Draft formatting
> > that has resulted since xml2rfc has been widely adopted. This makes  
> > it
> > a lot easier to print drafts, since they have consistent page sizes
> > and form-feed characters.
> huh?
>
> the current boilerplate has the first page being 54 lines long, and  
> subsequent pages being 57 lines long, but with the "footer" on the  
> 56th line, and not the 57th.
> The "footer" on the first page isn't on the last line of the page  
> either.
> This isn't very uniform...  perhaps unless you use some special  
> viewer to recreate this non-uniform display consistently.
It doesn't greatly offend me that the first page is three lines  
shorter than the other pages.  Nor does it confuse enscript, on those  
occasions when I want to print an internet-draft or RFC.
This is very much unlike the situation pre-xml2rfc, when the page  
length and width varied considerably for some drafts, and where form- 
feeds were often inconsistently applied.
--
Colin Perkins
http://csperkins.org/



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