Subject: [Rfc-markdown] kramdown-rfc2629 now has "kdrfc" tool

From: Carsten Bormann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 22:31:23 +0200

Version 1.2.0 of the kramdown-rfc2629 gem features a tool called “kdrfc”.
You feed it a .md (or a .mkd) and it makes a .txt for you:

$ kdrfc mydraft.md
$
(Now there is a mydraft.txt to behold.)

One nice feature is that you don’t have to have xml2rfc installed for that:
The tool falls back to the online version if the local xml2rfc call cannot find xml2rfc.
(The online version is usually only a second or so slower if you have decent connectivity.
The only real disadvantage is that any error messages from xml2rfc look a bit weird.)

$ kdrfc
Usage: kdrfc [options] file.md|file.mkd|file.xml
    -v, --[no-]verbose               Run verbosely
    -r, --[no-]remote                Run xml2rfc remotely even if there is a local one
    -x, --[no-]xml                   Convert to xml only

This tool is laughably simple, but it still might make the life of some of us a bit less painful.

Update to 1.2.0 as usual:

$ gem update

Feedback welcome.

Grüße, Carsten