I am just wondering how much effort is required to write a text file like that with page numbers, table of contents, headers, footers etc. Is there any editor or some thing like TeX that is used for writing the RFC documents?
A:
Write in some other format, like HTML/PDF/DOC and then export to text format. I guess that should be easier.
Priyank Bolia
2009-12-02 07:19:56
How do you "write in PDF"? :-)
bortzmeyer
2010-01-12 20:34:26
Open Office :) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Exporting_to_PDF
Priyank Bolia
2010-01-14 08:51:33
+1
A:
Older RFCs were probably written with nroff or one of its relatives (troff, roff, groff).
Laurence Gonsalves
2009-12-02 07:24:35
+2
A:
According to RFC 2223:
Most of the RFCs are processed by the RFC Editor with the unix "nroff" program using a very simple set of the formatting commands (or "requests") from the "ms" macro package (see the Appendix).
There is an RFC that details how they can be written using Microsoft Word: RFC 3285: Using Microsoft Word to create Internet Drafts and RFCs :-)
Joey
2009-12-02 07:36:58
+2
A:
I have written a couple of RFC-like documents in XML using the format described in RFC2629 and converting them uwing xml2rfc. There is also a XSLT available for doing the conversion.
Konamiman
2009-12-02 07:42:55