design:text-sample
Sample of an unpaginated text RFC
New features include:
- An RFC Editor note indicating that the document contains information that do not render in ASCII
- If there is no additional information/artwork, then it seems there should be a PI or attribute in the XML file to make the note appear or not appear.
- Does there need to be distinct RFC Editor notes for the three possible cases: an RFC with one or more images, and RFC with one or more scripts, or an RFC with both images and scripts?
- Sample text if an image were to be included
- When current ASCII-only RFCs contain images such that they must point to a PDF version that contains all the content, they do not have individual pointers to each image; they point to the entire PDF version. Currently suggesting we point to the info pages as the reference point for all images, rather than to a specific image file. This way we do not need to keep separate image pointers live and readers can choose the publication format of their choice.
- An author name with Cyrillic script alternative
- There are strong arguments for listing the unicode symbols where non-ASCII characters are used in a document; this becomes a consideration particularly when we allow non-ASCII characters in examples and/or other areas of the text (outside Author's Addresses). What kind of checking would we need to make that happen? (see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rse/FormatFAQ.html#8)
- Can we call this a plain text file if we're allowing alternate scripts anywhere? Or should those be left out of this format?
- Note a change in section ordering (Acknowledgments is immediately before Author's Address and is unnumbered, as per Style Guide draft http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-flanagan-style-01.txt)
Testing readability of non-ASCII script
- MacOS 10.7.5 Terminal - ok
- Firefox 23.0 - ok
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