[Tools-discuss] Fixing our PDF rendering

[Watson Ladd <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

I'd like to try to improve the way the PDFs look. Right now the ragged
right edges particularly give me grief, but I'm suspicious of the
kerning. More controversially carrying over the header from the text
format really doesn't look good: We could instead of the key: value
format delete the redundant RFC number, put the author below the
title, the ISSN and category in a footnote (or somewhere else
unobtrusive), and use more vertical space for what most readers want
to see: the RFC number, title and authors/contributors. I think there
might be some other tweaks (especially around tables and equations
when we agree what to do) but those two seem simple, easy to fix, and
a big improvement to the reading experience.

WesleyPrint is capable of doing all of this if we coax it the right
way (see the book example), so I'm optimistic we can solve all these
problems. That optimism might be badly misplaced, but I won't know
until I give it a try, Has anyone else given it a try and want to pass
on some lessons?

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd

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