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 :-)