Re: [Tools-discuss] RFCmarkup v1.28


Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
> Hi Elwyn,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> on 2006-07-26 20:49 Elwyn Davies said the following:
>
>   
>> This looks generally good in Firefox, but the fount size for <h1> in IE 
>> (v6.0, XP SP2)  is very much too large.and is not the same as the body 
>> test for all the other headers (~50% bigger for <h2> and  ~25% bigger 
>> for <h3>).
>>     
>
> Hmm!!  That should not happen, given that IE 6.0 understands css.
> I've made a change in the css, could you check this out again?
>   
This seems to be fixed (even if I can't get rfc4321 to refresh on IE) - 
rfc4320 is fine now and rfc4321 looks good on Firefox.
>   
>> Number of nits:
>> - the sample (RFC4321) has a title which runs to 2 lines - only the 
>> first one goes into the <h1> - aesthetic rather than vital
>> - however an internet draft with a two line title does something 
>> different  (something to do with the blank line?)- see 
>> http://www1.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aoun-midcom-intrarealmcalls-00 - 
>> here the second line of the title is turned into an <h2> (and is 'sort 
>> of' left justified rather than centred - the span takes in the spaces on 
>> the left of the title words.
>>     
>
> Actually, the difference you see is because I fixed the 2-line title problem
> while you were testing, before you got to this draft ;-)
>
> If you follow the link to the plain-text version of that particular draft,
> you'll see that the second line is mis-aligned in the original, too.  I've
> fixed the span taking in the spaces - it shouldn't do that.
>   
What about 3 line titles? rfc4319 ... sorry!
>   
>> - This draft doesn't get its headers put into <h*> at all: 
>> http://www1.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aoun-middlebox-token-authentication-00
>> - (an unpleasant corner case) 
>>     
>
> Right.  Currently I ignore sections which don't start flush-left.  I
> may try to fix this later.
>
>   
OK
>> http://www1.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-aoun-mgcp-nat-package-02 has a 
>> reference to a draft file in a section title (s9) and the algorithm 
>> doesn't quite work on the table of contents  (it incorporates the leader 
>> and the page number into the hyperlink)..  Need a pattern that allows 
>> only a single non-trailing period perhaps?
>>     
>
> Oh, bugger!  Right, I'll see what I can do about that one.
>
>   
>> (all this was looking for a draft or RFC with a very long section title 
>> that spills onto two lines - finally found one...)
>> - s2.8 of  
>> http://www1.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-problem-issue-statement-05 - 
>> the second line of the title isn't in the <h3>
>>     
>
> Right.  I think I'm going to give up on this one - I think drafts that
> lack a blank line between section title and section text may be just as
> likely as having a very long section title...
>   
Yes... I wouldn't complain too hard.  Section titles that long are just 
wrong (he said, as editor of the draft in question :-))

>   
>> - A badly formed draft (missing the Expires: on the third line of the 
>> header) produces some unexpected results: 
>> http://www1.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-07. BTW idnits 
>> does not complain about this.
>>     
>
> Bah.  Rfcmarkup takes the "11" in "11 July 2005" to be a section number.
> ... And how the blip should it know that this isn't a section number?...
>   
Cos it comes before the title ;-) .. Maybe we just ignore this one, fix 
idnits and wrk with decent id's.
>   
>> I agree that the print preview selects the wrong scaling factor (80% in 
>> Firefox and 75% in IE6) - 100% would be good but I don't know if you 
>> have any control over this.
>>     
>
> I've now set the font size to 10.5pt.  If I set it to 11pt the text goes
> outside the default margins on A4 paper, at least on my Mac.
>
> Remember that since the settings have to work for both A4 and Letter size
> paper there will be more unused paper than if you could adjust for only
> one of them...
>
>   
This looks better now.
I was on A4. I get 100% on Firefox but still nominally 75% on IE - but 
the text is bigger and looks ok (strange).
> Regards,
>
> 	Henrik
>   

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