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Generate RFCs and IETF drafts from document source in XML according to the IETF xml2rfc v2 and v3 vocabularies
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adjustable width limits for tables in text rendering #977

Open dkg opened 1 year ago

dkg commented 1 year ago

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The revision to rfc4880 has a table that is too wide to fit in 69 characters: it comes in at 72 characters. I don't see a way to fix this given the content we need in this table, but it results in many many lines of ugly output each time i try to rebuild the .txt version of the draft.

It would be nice if xml2rfc could have an adjustable limit for the expected table width, for example --allow-table-width 72 to override the default value of 69. That would make it much easier for me to see other helpful warnings that might be emitted, even though i can't fix this one.

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