[Infrastructure] Experiment: Recompile using entirely Pandoc

[Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)]

I mean, try to create a BR.pdf/BR.docx with -say- BR 1.6.3 and another 
pair of .pdf, .docx for BR 1.6.4. Send me these files and I will try to 
diff them so we can get a redline pdf and docx from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4.

You can send those privately so we don't fill up the space in the 
archive of the list.


Dimitris.

On 12/4/2019 11:35 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) wrote:
>
> You mean, do the same edits for a previous version of the BRs? Or just 
> supply the diff version against the current version? If you want the 
> latter, you could diff my copy 
> (https://github.com/castillar/documents/blob/master/docs/BR.md) 
> against the current version of the BRs 
> (https://github.com/cabforum/documents/blob/master/docs/BR.md) and see 
> how that does?
>
> -- 
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> *From: *"Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)" <dzacharo at harica.gr>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 9 April, 2019 at 12:07
> *To: *"Jos Purvis (jopurvis)" <jopurvis at cisco.com>, 
> "infrastructure at cabforum.org" <infrastructure at cabforum.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Infrastructure] Experiment: Recompile using entirely 
> Pandoc
>
> Jos this is great work! I think you just completed a huge milestone!
>
> If you can send me an example of similar outputs from the previous 
> version of the BRs, I can try to create a red-line for both the word 
> and PDF.
>
> Dimitris.
>
> On 9/4/2019 6:01 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) wrote:
>
>     Great feedback! I had a little mini-hackathon the last couple
>     nights, and managed to untangle and clean up the formatting in
>     sections like 5.4.1 and the 7.2.x.x.x.x sections and added page
>     numbers to the Word doc. Results are attached. ☺
>
>     -- 
>     Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>)
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>     *From: *"Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)" <dzacharo at harica.gr>
>     <mailto:dzacharo at harica.gr>
>     *Date: *Monday, 8 April, 2019 at 02:56
>     *To: *"Jos Purvis (jopurvis)" <jopurvis at cisco.com>
>     <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>, "infrastructure at cabforum.org"
>     <mailto:infrastructure at cabforum.org> <infrastructure at cabforum.org>
>     <mailto:infrastructure at cabforum.org>
>     *Subject: *Re: [Infrastructure] Experiment: Recompile using
>     entirely Pandoc
>
>
>     Thanks Jos, this looks really promising!
>
>     I noticed some issues with the numbering of different levels. For
>     example, take a look at section 5.4.1. Page numbers are also
>     missing from the docx version. We're getting close!
>
>
>     Dimitris.
>
>     On 7/4/2019 9:32 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) wrote:
>
>         It’s astonishing what you can get done when you’re avoiding
>         other work. ☺For fun[0], I decided to see how much would need
>         to change in the BRs to get Pandoc to produce a PDF from them,
>         since it can happily take the same source document and also
>         produce DOCX, HTML, and even ODT. Turns out, it wasn’t much:
>
>          1. I removed the funky Kramdown table header lines from the
>             list of ballots and the list of effective dates at the top
>             of the document.
>          2. I removed some zero-length Unicode space characters that
>             had crept into one of the 7.2.2.X.X.X sections.
>
>         That’s it. Really.
>
>         From there, I added a metadata file (“BR.yaml”) that contains
>         some document variables like the title and copyright info, and
>         a template LaTeX document with a nice-looking title page,
>         since that’s what Pandoc uses in the background to produce a
>         PDF. Then I converted the old title block for the document to
>         a ‘Verso’ page so there’s still a title at the top of the
>         Markdown file. The result is attached: I think it looks pretty
>         close to what we were looking for, including an
>         automatically-generated table of contents and a nice title
>         page, and we can use the same toolset to generate all of the
>         output artifacts. From there, next steps would be to generate
>         a similarly nice-looking Word doc (Pandoc will take an
>         existing DOCX as a template and use its formatting styles) and
>         CSS for the other two formats.
>
>         Note that we don’t /need/ to go this route, but it’s cool to
>         note that a little tinkering with the Markdown generated
>         something that will produce all three outputs pretty easily.
>         If you’re curious, I forked the repo and the changes and
>         artifact output are here:
>
>         https://github.com/castillar/documents
>
>         --Jos
>
>         [0] For interesting values of “fun” that include “avoiding
>         house-cleaning”.
>
>         -- 
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