<div dir="ltr"><div>And for completeness: This is what the PDF produced looks like from the canonical markdown:</div><div><br></div><img src="cid:ii_krut5f1s0" alt="Screen Shot 2021-08-02 at 11.49.06 AM.png" width="562" height="217"><br><div><br></div><div>That said, I haven't really paid attention to the Word file, as I don't use it, but could you confirm the process you're using to generate the table of contents? It should be generated with four levels of depth, like above - the Word default is 3 levels, so if you're manually doing the generation, this may explain. It looks like there's a slight bug in Word that <a href="https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/458">we don't have a way to work around</a> related to how it generates the TOC, but if you're manually replacing the ToC, that may explain why you don't have a matching experience.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 2, 2021 at 11:48 AM Ryan Sleevi via Validation <<a href="mailto:validation@cabforum.org">validation@cabforum.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hey Doug,</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestion!</div><div><br></div><div>I think you may recall that we had at least two calls where we discussed this outline, early on, in order to gather feedback early on, so that it wouldn't require major restructuring. That's not to say no, but that this isn't exactly a light request.</div><div><br></div><div>There's a clear problem with your proposal, which is that it relies on breaking from RFC 3647 format. Considering multiple root programs, and the BRs itself, require CAs to adhere to RFC 3647, that's a somewhat big divergence here, and I want to call attention to it.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll certainly give it some thought, but I'm hoping as well you can better explain your concern: Is your primary concern simply the Table of Contents on the main PDF? I'm not sure I understand "avoid long numbered headings" in and of itself as a goal, especially since we have other places (and within the NCSSRs, but <i>especially</i> the EVGs), so it does seem you're proposing a more substantial requirement that is inconsistent with our existing work. That doesn't mean it's bad, but it seems we should try to aim to be self-consistent to a degree, shouldn't we?</div></div>
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