ASCII RFC headers, footers & pagination not removed
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Description
In the older v2 ASCII-source RFC format the body of an RFC is rendered as a sequence of pages, each repeating extraneous information from the first page or page numbers which are redundant for unpaginated HTML.
RFC 4594, pg. 2 for example, cuts paragraphs mid-sentence as content flows over to the next page. This makes for confusing and noisy narration of these publications.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with RFC 4594 and tracing how older v2 ASCII-source RFC pages are parsed. Done means unpaginated HTML no longer includes repeated headers, footers, page numbers, or page-break artifacts, while the publication text remains intact.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- content
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100