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[Cellar] math in IETF specifications

Dave Rice <dave@dericed.com> Wed, 02 December 2015 19:22 UTC

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Dear IETF lurkers,

The current version of the FFV1 specification includes a lot of latex style mathematical equations to express various aspects of the encoding format. These can be seen in the markdown in locations like this https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFV1/blob/master/ffv1.md#range-binary-values <https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFV1/blob/master/ffv1.md#range-binary-values> and in rendered form in HTML, http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1-markdown/ffv1.html#range-coding-mode <http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1-markdown/ffv1.html#range-coding-mode>, and PDF, http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1-markdown/ffv1.pdf <http://www.ffmpeg.org/~michael/ffv1-markdown/ffv1.pdf>.

I've been investigating to see how other RFC documents integrate latex style mathematical equations but have not found any? If there a recommended manner to include math? Should it be translated into a narrative? Is there a recommended way to render math in a plain text RFC?

Best Regards,
Dave Rice

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