Thanks all, for the very interesting responses to this thread. It sounds
like _most_ of the Unix-based preparation efforts centered around an
`nroff`-based workflow until the advent of XML.

        - Dan C.


On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 5:24 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly, I'm not quite sure if this is a TUHS, COFF, or IH question. But
> since my background with respect to such things is largely Unix centric, I
> thought I'd ask in that context, hence asking on TUHS.
>
> I assume some of the regulars on this list have authored RFCs (of the IETF
> etc variety). The RFC format seems fairly well fixed: table of contents,
> fixed number of lines per page, page numbers and dates in the footer, and
> so forth. The format is sufficiently complex that it seems like some
> tooling could be usefully employed to aid in producing these documents.
>
> So I'm curious: what tools did people use to produce those documents?
> Perhaps `nroff` with custom macros or something?
>
>         - Dan C.
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