New features (keep in mind that utils/draft.py can be run standalone
to do extraction of draft author data, too):
* The handling of author info formatted in columns causes problems
in the face of an author named for instance A. Author with the
company 'Al Author and Associates', causing breakage of email
addresses longer than 'Al Author and'. Tweaked the recognition
of column data to require multiple (not only one) space around
'and'.
* Added support for extraction of author affiliation.
* Tweaked the meaning of -t, --timestamp and added --notimestamp; and
made the default be to emit leading timestamps based ont the draft
file time.
* Added support for running author extraction on RFCs, by not bailing
out on not finding a draft name when RFC information is available.
* Added support for additional date formats and author name formats.
* Improved creation date extraction -- previously, the first supported
date format which was recognized on the first page of the draft would
be used, rather than the first date in a supported format. This could
cause errors if the Status of Memo section or Abstract contained a
date occurring at the start of a line.
* Tweaked the honorific regex to make things work better for the case
when the full name in the author's address section includes a first
name which isn't part of the first-page abbreviated name. Fixes
problems with draft-chiappa-lisp-introduction and similar.
* Added a special case for people who provide their email address as
'foo&cisco.com' instead of 'foo@cisco.com'. Bah.
* Added an alternative, more human-readable key-value-pair attribute
output mode with a '-a' switch.
* Tweaded the first-name regex to capture cases where the first name
is indicated with an alternate first letter: 'Y(J) Stein'. Fixes
problems with draft-anavi-tdmoip and similar.
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