On 8/22/23 15:55, John R. Levine wrote:
I agree that it would be nice to have easier ways to author I-Ds, but
considering what tools people use these days, a translator from MS
Word .docx
or whatever you can get from Google Docs would likely get a lot more use.
You can tell Word to export HTML, but it's pretty funky HTML. Better
to go direct.
In general I'm in favor of having multiple paths to produce
internet-drafts, so I certainly wouldn't object to MS Word -> XML2RFC as
an alternative to HTML->XML2RFC. But even the funky HTML produced by
MS Word, I expect, still contains all of the text present in the input,
a bit of formatting, and also enough information to distinguish a new
paragraph from a newline, and pre-formatted text from wrapped text. And
I would consider it necessary to strip out most of the HTML formatting
down to XML2RFC equivalent no matter what the source.
Keith
