[187267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OT: ID/RFC formatting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcin Cieslak)
Mon Jan 25 17:38:27 2016
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:38:21 +0000
From: Marcin Cieslak <saper@saper.info>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
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Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I know we have to have a few people on here who've written technical RFCs
> (as opposed to 1 April ones like my RFC 2100)...
>
> Any tips on 1) how to do inline boldface and 2) what to do with ASCIIart
> illustrations that are too wide for the page?
>
> I'm using Stefan Santteson's nroffEdit (since I'm presently stuck on Windows),
> but it doesn't seem to like .B/.R or \fB / \fP for the former, and on the latter point,
> it's simple unclear how I should approach the thing (a four-column time-sequence
> diagram of a network transaction, similar to that of the four-point SIP call.
Those days I think the things are done with the help
of xml2rfc, I have used xxe Personal Edition with
the xxe-xml2rfc plugin, so no nroff needed really anymore.
Marcin
