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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka@iki.fi>
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Subject: Re: Consistent reference to RFCs in the documentation
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On Tue, Dec  1, 2020 at 02:39:04PM +0200, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
> On 05/11/2020 17:09, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
> > When referencing RFC's, we have a mix of ulinking to the ietf.org entry and
> > not.  Also, for subsequent mentions of the same RFC on the same page we have
> > some as <acronym> while others are not.
> 
> I'm not sure how sensible the <acronym> tag is for these. I mean, yeah, it's
> an acronym, but it wouldn't make sense to write it open. It doesn't seem to
> affect the formatting in the HTML docs, at least I don't see any difference
> in my browser. But let's be consistent.

Ideally acronyms would use smallcaps, but I don't think we have that
configured in our style sheets.

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