Subfigures in mmark

Sat, 03 Oct 2015 13:24:00 +0000

For XML2RFC version 3 there is a new extended figure element, namely: it can contain multiple <artwork> or <sourcecode> (new in v3) elements. This in turn meant that mmark needed some way to signal “these artworks belong together”. Now Scholarly markdown has a syntax for this. It uses a special section syntax and all images in that section become subfigures of a larger figure. Disadvantage of this syntax is that it can not be used in lists. Hence mmark uses a quote like solution, just like asides (A>), but for figures: we prefix the entire paragraph with F> .

Lists in lists with style

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:56:00 +0000

Mmark is a markdown dialect for writing RFCs (or books!). The main reason it exists is because the IETF is developing a new XML format (version 3) for writing RFCs. This new format is way more powerful, so sadly Pandoc2rfc does not cut it anymore.

Right now mmark fully supports writing RFCs in XML2RFC version 2, but anything written can also be converted to the (work-in-progress) XML2RFC version 3 format. In a series of blog posts I will detail some of the features, such as list styling while remaining upwards compatible.

Styling on Miek Gieben

Subfigures in mmark

Lists in lists with style