[Infrastructure] Experiment: Recompile using entirely Pandoc
Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)
dzacharo at harica.gr
Wed Apr 17 08:08:11 MST 2019
Here is the red-line I created using word comparing the two BR version
that Jos sent me.
Changes between 1.6.3 and 1.6.4 were significant.
Dimitris.
On 15/4/2019 7:03 μ.μ., Jos Purvis (jopurvis) wrote:
>
> Sounds good! I merged in the changes from cabforum/master that
> incorporate everything up to 1.6.4, and then generated new documents
> from that, which should properly simulate the 1.6.3 to 1.6.4 update.
> I’ll send those under separate cover.
>
> --
> Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com)
> .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services
> PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk)
>
> *From: *"Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)" <dzacharo at harica.gr>
> *Date: *Friday, 12 April, 2019 at 17:44
> *To: *"Jos Purvis (jopurvis)" <jopurvis at cisco.com>,
> "infrastructure at cabforum.org" <infrastructure at cabforum.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Infrastructure] Experiment: Recompile using entirely
> Pandoc
>
> 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?
>
> --
> Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>)
> .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services
> PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk)
>
> *From: *"Dimitris Zacharopoulos (HARICA)" <dzacharo at harica.gr>
> <mailto:dzacharo at harica.gr>
> *Date: *Tuesday, 9 April, 2019 at 12:07
> *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
>
> 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>)
> .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services
> PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk)
>
> *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”.
>
> --
> Jos Purvis (jopurvis at cisco.com <mailto:jopurvis at cisco.com>)
> .:|:.:|:. cisco systems | Cryptographic Services
> PGP: 0xFD802FEE07D19105 | +1 919.991.9114 (desk)
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
>
> Infrastructure mailing list
>
> Infrastructure at cabforum.org <mailto:Infrastructure at cabforum.org>
>
> http://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cabforum.org/pipermail/infrastructure/attachments/20190417/b840c859/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: BR 1.6.4-redlined-MSWord.docx
Type: application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
Size: 147609 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://cabforum.org/pipermail/infrastructure/attachments/20190417/b840c859/attachment-0001.docx>
More information about the Infrastructure
mailing list