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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/12/2014 04:23 PM, Dave Taht
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On Mar 12, 2014 1:11 PM, "David Collier-Brown" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:davec-b@rogers.com">davec-b@rogers.com</a>>
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> [Off-topic]<br>
> Someone with classic-typesetting-tools experience might
wish to<br>
> volunteer a pandoc-based process. See, for example,<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/589196/0e8f212d7a59f556/">http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/589196/0e8f212d7a59f556/</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">The fq codel rfc was written in pandoc, and converted
via pandoc2rfc. The raw texts are managed in git and in github.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It took me a year of fiddling to get to acceptable
output from this.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">The amount of effort required was comparable to
getting a paper formatted for the IEEE with TeX, with far less
pleasing results than TeX.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Certainly you have to be committed if you want to
write an rfc. The present process is a major barrier to entry.<br>
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> --dave<br>
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AARGH!<br>
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I wasn't expecting that...<br>
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--dave<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain
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