Re: latex & internet-drafts & text output

[Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu>]

We have been using LaTeX for some of the SIP and RTP specs, together 
with a Tcl program that converts LaTeX to nroff (ms macros). The set of 
scripts requires a bit of expertise to set up, so I've made them 
available by request only.

Jari Arkko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone point me to instructions on how to use latex for the
> production of internet drafts, including the .txt versions? I know
> several folks who are doing this but none of the folks I know personally
> can tell me what software versions, which tools, which settings, and
> which style and other files they are using.
>
> I have tried to Ralph Drom's rfc.tex and txt.tex and some version
> of dvi2tty and the output isn't right; lines are too long and
> there are empty lines in between. I also run into problems
> in tex.sty on the @getfont directive which doesn't seem to work
> on my Linux-redhat-default-installed latex system.
>
> Jari
>
> P.S. I'd be using XML but I happen to be editing something which
> is already in LaTex.
>
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