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Random notes from IETF tools tutorial
Slides: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-editor/tools_87.pdf
RFC6949 - RFC Series Format Requirements and Future Development - on future formats of the RFCs.
NroffEdit - "straightforward way to write drafts".
My Mac refused to launch NroffEdit.
The straightforward way "java -jar NroffEdit.jar" in NroffEdit.app/Contents/Resources/Java did not work.
A hack that allowed me to launch it:
mkdir lib
cd lib
find .. -name '*.jar' -exec ln -s {} . \;
# The find will complain a couple of times because of the attempt to
# link the files onto themselves, it's ugly but harmless.
cd ..
And then:
java -jar NroffEdit.jar
XML2RFC
I use it but found a couple of new things:
GUI: http://tools.ietf.org/tools/xml2rfc2/gui/mac/ - not sure how it helps. Need to play more.
XML2RFC Wizard: YAY! A way to create the template XML by walking
through the series of questions.
Lyx2XML: "Look Ma, no XML!"
www.lyx.org, online conversion is lyx2rfc.org
Need to play with it, looks nice at the first sight, but maybe after nroff :-)
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