Footer components can overlap in v2 text output

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See draft-mahesh-etsi-urn-03. The footer generated by versions up to 2.10.3 looks as follows:

Jethanandani & Angel ReiExpiresgDecember 10, 2018               [Page 1]

which overlays the expiry information on part of the author names.

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Issue migrated from trac:377 at 2022-02-05 12:46:31 +0000

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This is likely much better in v3, but a test will have to be built to verify whether there's more to do.

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[kesara]

v3 seems to behave in a similar way.

[jrlevine]

Suggest truncate and notify, don't try anything more clever than that.

[stpeter]

That makes sense. Can we close this issue?

[kesara]

xml2rfc doesn't warn/notify about this yet. We have to add a warning when the footer component gets truncated.

Also, the current footer generation is buggy:

Jethanandani & Angel ReiExpiresg10 December 2018                [Page 1]

Where it should be:

Jethanandani & Angel Re Expires 10 December 2018                [Page 1]

[JayDaley]

The truncation should end with an ellipsis so that the reader is aware that the text has been truncated. As per the Chicago Manual of Style there should not be a space or other punctuation before the ellipsis.

Jethanandani & Angel... Expires 10 December 2018                [Page 1]

[ajeanmahoney]

Although "et al." is typically used with more than 2 authors, the current version of the Chicago Manual of Style suggests using "et al." to shorten the author list in a footer when there's more than one author [1]:

the author’s surname or, for more than one author, a shortened version of the author list (such as Aldrich et al.);

Note that it is RFC style to place a comma after the author name, e.g., "Johnston, et al.".

[1] https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/book/ed17/part1/ch01/psec083.html (paywalled)