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NIST CyberSecurity White Paper PubID scheme change and mapping

With the adoption of the latest NIST PubID 1.0 scheme, the NIST Library has decided to retroactively apply the scheme to CyberSecurity White Papers published by the CSRC. This post provides a mapping from the old CSWP PubIDs to the newly assigned PubIDs.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 22 Aug 2023

RNP

RNP version 0.17.0 released

AEAD-OCB support for OpenSSL backend and other features

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 01 May 2023

RNP

RNP version 0.16.3 released

Security fixes (CVE-2023-29479, CVE-2023-29480)

Author’s picture Jeffrey Lau on 13 Apr 2023

Metanorma

Xmlsts To Metanorma

Imagine that you have a typically long XML file compliant with ISO STS or NISO STS, which you want to shift to other file formats, such as .html, .doc and .pdf. The file should be encoded as a Metanorma AsciiDoc first, but this can be a really tedious task even with the most advanced text editor at your disposal. Here is where mnconvert come in handy, to fasten the conversion process by a substantial amount.

17 Nov 2022

RNP

RNP version 0.16.2 released

Fix for CMake issues introduced in v0.16.2

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 22 Sep 2022

RNP

New signature verification behaviour

Require only single valid signature for successfull verification.

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 07 Sep 2022

RNP

RNP version 0.16.1 released

Support for OpenSSL 3.0 backend and RHEL 9/Fedora 36

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 06 Sep 2022

Metanorma

Annotations now available in all Metanorma outputs

Editor notes, reviewer notes and to-dos are now available across Metanorma output formats, now including PDF.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Alexander Dyuzhev on 21 Aug 2022

Metanorma

Introducing the Metanorma collection, through the SI Brochure

Metanorma now supports Metanorma collections, a feature that allows a set of Metanorma documents to be published in flexible configurations.

Author’s picture Alexander Bobrikovich Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 11 Jul 2022

Metanorma

Validating against ISO House Style

The ISO House Style has recently been published publicly, and Metanorma now supports validation of the ISO House Style for ISO deliverables, in addition to ISO/IEC DIR 2.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 13 Mar 2022

Metanorma

Working with special drafting requirements: the ISO 8000 series

Some ISO Technical Committees and Working Groups have additional requirements how drafts are prepared on top of those from ISO DIR 2 and ISO House Style. This blog post uses an example from the ISO 8000 series to demonstrate how it works.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 09 Mar 2022

RNP

RNP version 0.16.0 released

OpenSSL backend and security profiles support

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 20 Jan 2022

Metanorma

Introducing NIST PubID, and the migration of publication identifiers

Brief introduction to the NIST PubID, the latest human-readable publication identifier syntax at NIST, and the effort behind to migrate existing identifiers.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Artur Komarov on 09 Jan 2022

Metanorma

Metanorma now offers PDF protection mechanisms!

Metanorma-generated PDFs now support encryption and other PDF protection features.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Alexander Dyuzhev on 04 Dec 2021

Metanorma

Accessibility tagging in Metanorma PDFs

Metanorma-generated PDFs utilize advanced tagging structures provided by the ISO 32000-1:2008 PDF standard to best facilitate usage of assistive technologies.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Alexander Dyuzhev on 03 Sep 2021

Metanorma

Making math accessible in Metanorma PDFs

The BIPM SI Brochure utilizes several advanced PDF techniques for accessibility, not only using PDF/UA features but also making math formulas accessible for non-Adobe PDF viewers.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Alexander Dyuzhev on 26 Aug 2021

RNP

RNP version 0.15.2 released

Compatibility and security improvements

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 06 Aug 2021

Metanorma

Using Metanorma with proxies (HTTPS, SOCKS)

Metanorma now supports Internet access via HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS proxy servers!

Author’s picture Alexander Bobrikovich on 20 Jul 2021

Metanorma

New functionality: Concept mentions

New "concept mentions" functionality for semantic encoding of term instances!

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 06 Jul 2021

Metanorma

Halfway into Google Season of Docs

Ankita and Tina reporting for duty: A summary of the first half of GSoD.

Author’s picture Tina Lüdtke Author’s picture Ankita Tripathi on 30 Jun 2021

RNP

RNP version 0.15.1 released

API and security enhancements

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 31 May 2021

Metanorma

Kickoff to Metanorma's Google Season of Docs 2021

Ankita Tripathi and Tina Lüdtke selected as Metanorma GSoD writers 2021!

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 17 May 2021

Metanorma

Metanorma accepted by Google's Season of Docs 2021

Metanorma is now recruiting an open-source technical writer for its GSoD 2021 season!

Author’s picture Wai Kit Wong on 18 Apr 2021

RNP

RNP version 0.15 released

API, CLI and FFI enhancements

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 05 Apr 2021

RNP

RNP proposal for Google's Season of Docs 2021

Improving RNP documentation through GSoD 2021!

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 26 Mar 2021

Metanorma

Metanorma proposal for Google's Season of Docs 2021

Improving Metanorma documentation through GSoD 2021!

Author’s picture Wai Kit Wong on 26 Mar 2021

Metanorma

Metanorma CLI: new font processing options

Learn about new font processing options now available in Metanorma CLI

Author’s picture Alex Bobrikovich on 24 Jan 2021

RNP

RNP 0.14.0 released

After a long delay the next version of the library and CLI was released. Major FFI, CLI and security improvements and compatibility fixes. Also now it can be built for Windows via MSVC and MinGW/MSYS2.

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 21 Jan 2021

Metanorma

Generate document sites with the Metanorma CLI

Generate a document site for a set of documents using Metanorma CLI

Author’s picture Abu Nashir on 19 Dec 2020

Metanorma

Updated "include" behaviour in Metanorma AsciiDoc

Recent changes to Metanorma AsciiDoc processing of included files.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 08 Dec 2020

Metanorma

Yaml2Text now supports YAML with Liquid

Importing YAML data into Metanorma using Liquid!

Author’s picture Jeffrey Lau Author’s picture Mikhail Tretiakov on 20 Sep 2020

Metanorma

Upgrading Metanorma IETF documents from metanorma-ietf v1 to v2

This post describes steps to migrate Metanorma IETF documents from metanorma-ietf v1 to v2.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 10 Jun 2020

Metanorma

Installing LaTeXML for Metanorma (and tex2mn)

There are many ways to install LaTeXML depending on your needs

Author’s picture Alex Bobrikovich Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 11 May 2020

Metanorma

Using YAML as data source

Import YAML data into Metanorma has never been so easy

Author’s picture Jeffrey Lau on 07 May 2020

Metanorma

Saving Metanorma Word Documents

Post-processing of Metanorma Microsoft Word output

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 16 Apr 2020

Metanorma

Metanorma IETF v2 released with native RFC XML v3 support

Metanorma IETF at 2.0 now fully supports RFC XML v3 input.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 06 Jan 2020

RNP

RNP 0.13.0 released

Next version of the RNP library extends FFI and CLI interfaces, giving more flexibility and control to the user.

Author’s picture Nickolay Olshevsky on 03 Jan 2020

Metanorma

Compiling IETF RFCs with Metanorma and LaTeX

We’ve had great progress with the LaTeX backend of Metanorma since alpha support was announced!

Author’s picture Paolo Brasolin on 13 Dec 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma more accessible than ever with WCAG compliance

Learn about newly available accessibility features in Metanorma, including on how to make your documents compliant to Section 508.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 08 Oct 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma now supports LaTeX input (tex2mn in alpha!)

Metanorma now supports LaTeX input, in alpha!

Author’s picture Paolo Brasolin Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 08 Oct 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma now supports IEC standardization deliverables

Metanorma now supports authoring IEC International Standards.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 02 Sep 2019

Metanorma

Guidance on NOTEs and EXAMPLEs in ISO deliverables

ISO has provided updated advice on styling of notes and examples.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 25 Aug 2019

Metanorma

Announcing Metanorma support for TeX math

Until recently, Metanorma has only processed AsciiMath and MathML. Now Metanorma also accepts some WYSIWYM methods for writing mathematical formulas.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 29 May 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma templates for CalConnect, OGC and ISO documents

Metanorma now supports templates for CalConnect, OGC and ISO documents.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 26 Apr 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma available for macOS as Homebrew formula

Metanorma is now available on macOS as a native install through the Homebrew package manager.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 23 Jan 2019

Metanorma

Writing in AsciiDoc, Part 4

Two types of section have specialized content, which requires additional markup: Terms and definitions, and Bibliographies.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 15 Jan 2019

RNP

RNP 0.12.0 released

Added support for extra ECC curves (Brainpool p256, p384, p512, secp256k1, x25519). Extended FFI with AEAD support and a bunch of examples. CLI functionality extended with -f command, allowing to use the key loaded from a file.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 14 Jan 2019

Metanorma

Metanorma now available on Windows as Chocolatey package

Metanorma is now available on Windows as a native install package through the Chocolatey package manager.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 25 Dec 2018

Metanorma

Writing in AsciiDoc, Part 3

AsciiDoc documents are text; so if you already have a document in a PDF file, or a Word file, or an HTML file, the simplest thing to do is to copy its text into a text document, and then to mark it up.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 16 Dec 2018

Metanorma

Writing in AsciiDoc, Part 2

By gradually building up the document, and testing it as you go, you can prevent unpleasant surprises later on.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 15 Dec 2018

Metanorma

Writing in AsciiDoc

AsciiDoc documents are text; so if you already have a document in a PDF file, or a Word file, or an HTML file, the simplest thing to do is to copy its text into a text document, and then to mark it up.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 11 Dec 2018

Metanorma

What Metanorma is

Metanorma defines common formatting and conventions across standards; the various flavors provide functionality specific to each standards body. That includes different validation, different formatting options, and different styling.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 05 Dec 2018

Metanorma

What Metanorma is for

Why Metanorma? If you’re in the business of writing standards documents, you are in the business of writing some of the most complicated documents there are. Here’s a better alternative than …​ Microsoft Word.

Author’s picture Nick Nicholas on 29 Nov 2018

RNP

RNP 0.11.0 released

This update improves key import/merge operations and support for automating S2K iterations calculation.

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 17 Sep 2018

Metanorma

Metanorma wins two Gold Stevie Awards at 2018 International Business Awards

This year’s judges lauded the development of Metanorma as a "revolutionary concept", noting that, "Setting standards for standardization is a very important requirement. This is a great initiative." Another judge remarked that to anyone who has to administrate such standards, Metanorma "will seem like a godsend."

Author’s picture Ronald Tse on 24 Aug 2018

RNP

RNP 0.10.0 released

After a year since it stemmed off NetPGP, the OpenPGP library shares little code in common with its ancestor. Enjoy new features, better performance, and better compatibility with other implementations.