[Infrastructure] Reviving SC26 (Pandoc-Friendly Formatting)

[Ben Wilson]

Thanks.  I'll take a look at those.  Never mind about the metadata
question--I think it was just the way that I was downloading the markdown
file from GitHub.
Thanks again,
Ben


On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 7:43 AM Ryan Sleevi <sleevi at google.com> wrote:

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>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 8:17 AM Ben Wilson <benwilsonusa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have the documents that Jos sent open in Acrobat (.pdf), Word (.docx),
>> Firefox (.html), and Typora (.md from GitHub).
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to help?  Is there anything I should look at
>> specifically?
>>
>
> I think the two main things:
> - Are there visual issues or conversion artifacts that should be corrected
> (e.g. the discussion about SC27's ASN.1 being mangled in the markdown)
> - Are there changes to the doc that were missed (e.g. how a portion of
> SC24 was missed)
>
> Beyond having an extra set of eyes, no, I think that's it.
>
>
>>
>> Also, I notice that the .md and .html versions have a lot of HTML
>> metadata (shown with Typora/Firefox, but not readily shown in Word/Acrobat
>> or online GitHub).
>>
>
> Could you clarify what you mean by "HTML metadata"? Do you mean things
> like links? Or something else?
>
>
>> I apologize if you've already discussed this, what is the recommended
>> document-production flow? Which one is the source? What processes run in
>> the background?  I think I'm missing some pieces of the puzzle.
>>
>
> The proposal is to make the .md canonical, and allow the production of
> .docx / .pdf / .html to be automatically done.
>
> Phase 1 of integration (which is "done", more or less) has this conversion
> done every commit
> Phase 2 of integration (which is not yet started) would have this done
> roughly on the creation of a new Pull Request, and also create diffs/red
> lines.
>
>>
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