RE: Checking I-Ds for nits.

["Elizabeth Rodriguez" <ElizabethRodriguez@ieee.org>]

I have found this to be the case as well (use MS Word).
Unfortunately, as of about a month or so ago, I reviewed the currently
available MS Word template and it is itself full of nits.

I have not found any good automated way of checking for nits.
I have a few tools I have developed (very rudimentary perl) which checks for
#columns, ending -, etc. but for the most part need to review manually
before sending to the ADs.

EGR
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-wgchairs@ietf.org [mailto:owner-wgchairs@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
Mukesh.Gupta@nokia.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:55 PM
To: mrose+mtr.ietf@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Cc: wgchairs@ietf.org
Subject: RE: Checking I-Ds for nits.

 
I think, most of the newcomers start with microsoft word which probably is
the worst choice :-(

Do we ask the contributors to submit just the txt file or also the xml/rtf
etc file too ? If the author submits the txt file, how should chair make
sure that all the ID-nits requirements are met before the chair submits the
draft to IESG ?

Checking the formatting manually doesn't seem like a viable choice.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Marshall Rose [mailto:mrose+mtr.ietf@dbc.mtview.ca.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:02 PM
> To: Gupta Mukesh (IPRG/MtView)
> Cc: wgchairs@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Checking I-Ds for nits.
> 
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > How do people make sure that the draft submitted to the WG 
> are compliant to ID
> > nits on this page ? http://www.ietf.org/ID-nits.html
> > 
> > Is there any tool available to help in doing this ??
> 
> ideally, it would be nice if there was an automated service 
> to do something like
> this (kind of like the mib-checker from a decade ago... is 
> that still running?)
> 
> alternatively, you can write your I-Ds in XML according to 
> the rules in rfc 2629
> and use an automated processor to generate the text, cf.,
> http://xml.resource.org/
> 
> /mtr
>