Re: xml2rfc 1.34 on Ubuntu

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Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> 
> >>>>> "Melinda" == Melinda Shore <shore@xxxxxxxx> writes:
>     Melinda> suppose explains the 2544 packages.  I'd certainly never
>     Melinda> deny people the ability to easily maintain unused and
>     Melinda> unnecessary software and we're headed *way* off-topic, but
>     Melinda> I was just struck by how odd it seemed that somebody who
>     Melinda> needed the new release of xml2rfc would be frustrated by it
>     Melinda> not being in the absolutely, completely, 100% farkakte
>     Melinda> ports system.
> 
> So, I go my colleagues' desk, and he wants to edit my draft or start a
> new one.  He's never used xml2rfc before... he'll need the latest
> boilerplate.  Downloading the zip is easy, but betcha there is some tcl
> prereq that isn't installed... so the apt-get makes it all simple.


I would suggest to give NroffEdit (a Java program) a try in such
a situation (which is also listed on http://tools.ietf.org/,
 direct link would be http://aaa-sec.com/nroffedit/)

With NroffEdit you can convert a plain .txt I-D back into editable
nroff-source in little time (it took me ~30 minutes).

-Martin
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