Internet Engineering Task Force                            Ralph Droms
INTERNET-DRAFT                                     Bucknell University
                                                            July, 1991


              A LaTeX Style for RFCs and Internet Drafts




1 Status


This Internet Draft  is submitted  in the  spirit of  the ``RFC  nroff
macros'' Internet Draft submitted by Jon Postel.  The LaTeX style file
described in this  document produces  documents in the  style of  RFCs
and Internet Drafts.   Please respond with  comments to the author  at
droms@bucknell.edu.


2 Summary


The LaTeX style file rfc.sty  produces documents in the style  of RFCs
and Internet Drafts.  rfc.sty includes the following commands:


 Command  Parameter         RFC or I-D?  Description

 rfc      (none)            RFC          Use RFC format
 i-d      (none)            I-D          Use Internet Draft format
 title    Document title    both         Specifies title for document
 author   Author's name     both         Specifies author's name
 address  Author's address  both         Specifies author's address
 pubdate  Publication date  both         Specifies publication date
 rfcnum   RFC number        RFC          Specifies RFC number



All parameters are text  strings that are  inserted directly into  the
appropriate fields in the formatted document.


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3 Example


The  following  example  was  extracted  from  the  LaTeX  input  that
generated this document:



\documentstyle[rfc]{article}
% \rfc          - used when generating RFC instead of I-D
% \rfcnum{xxxx}
\i-d
\title{A \LaTeX\ Style for RFCs and Internet Drafts}
\author{Ralph Droms}
\address{Bucknell University}
\pubdate{July, 1991}

\begin{document}
\maketitle



4 Comments


rfc.sty is available for anonymous  FTP from sol.bucknell.edu in  file
droms/rfc.sty.

rfc.sty would be much more useful with a good  dvi-to-ASCII conversion
mechanism.  We're working on it.







Appendix - Listing of rfc.sty


\def\rfc{\gdef\@pubtype{RFC}
         \gdef\@pubhdr{Request for Comments:}
         \gdef\@pubgroup{Network Working Group}}
\def\i-d{\gdef\@pubtype{INTERNET-DRAFT}
         \gdef\@pubhdr{INTERNET-DRAFT}
         \gdef\@pubgroup{Internet Engineering Task Force}}

\def\@rfcnum{}
\def\rfcnum#1{\gdef\@rfcnum{#1}}

\def\pubdate#1{\gdef\@pubdate{#1}}


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\def\address#1{\gdef\@address{#1}}

\def\maketitle{\par
 \begingroup
 \newpage \global\@topnum\z@
 \@maketitle
 \@makeheadings
 \endgroup
 \setcounter{footnote}{0}
 \let\maketitle\relax
 \let\@maketitle\relax
}
\def\@maketitle{\newpage
 \null
 \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}
{@{\extracolsep{0pt}} l @{\extracolsep{\fill}} r @{\extracolsep{0pt}}}
  \@pubgroup                     & \@author \\
  \@pubhdr\ \@rfcnum             & \@address \\
                                 & \@pubdate
 \end{tabular*}
 \begin{center}
  \large\bf\@title
 \end{center}
\def\@makeheadings{
 \null
 % Generate RFC page headings
 \gdef\@oddhead
   {\rm \@pubtype\ \@rfcnum \hfil \@title \hfil \@pubdate}
 \gdef\@evenhead
   {\rm \@pubtype \@rfcnum \hfil \@title \hfil \@pubdate}
 \gdef\@oddfoot
   {\rm \@author\hfil [Page \thepage ]}
 \gdef\@evenfoot
   {\rm \@author\hfil [Page \thepage ]}
 }
}

\evensidemargin 0in
\oddsidemargin  0in
\topmargin      0pt
\textwidth      6in
\textheight     8.5in

\parindent      0in
\parskip        12pt

\thispagestyle{empty}






Ralph Droms                                                   [Page 3]