OT: ID/RFC formatting

Mon Jan 25 22:38:21 UTC 2016

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