[Tools-discuss] Re: xml2rfc: boldface in Noto Sans

[Kesara Rathnayake <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 14:43, Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Do you have a plan for all the broken documents that have been produced so
> far?  In particular, is this a problem for published RFCs?  I don't know
> how many of those depend on having boldface.
>

There are 54 published RFCs that use the `<strong>` element.
I'm not sure about the severity of this problem.

We have the option to host https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc-local.css
with updated CSS.
And the other option is regenerating HTML.
I guess it's up to the RPC to make a call on this.

  --Kesara



>
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, at 11:47, Kesara Rathnayake wrote:
> > Hi Martin,
> >
> > We are working on hosting these fonts by ourselves.
> > See https://github.com/ietf-tools/xml2rfc/issues/1281
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kesara
> >
> > On Tue, 23 Sept 2025 at 12:00, Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> When you say "this", do you mean hosting fonts or updating existing
> files to include a functioning set of fonts?
> >>
> >> BTW,
> https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Sans:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap
> would be a better URL.  The font they serve there is fully variable.
> However, that doesn't allow you to adjust if that URL goes away though and
> it seems like that's a risk.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2025, at 03:52, Robert Sparks wrote:
> >> > We're working towards this.
> >> >
> >> > On 9/22/25 3:07 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> >> >> it would be good if the fonts were moved to be hosted on ietf.org
> or rfc-editor.org
> >>
> >> -----------------------------------------------
> >> Tools-discuss mailing list -- [e-mail]
> >> To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
> >> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/tools-discuss/
> >
> >
> > --
> > Kesara Rathnayake
> > Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF Administration LLC
> > [e-mail]
>


-- 
Kesara Rathnayake
Senior Software Development Engineer - IETF Administration LLC
[e-mail]