Formatting of italicized items in plain text version

[yaronf]

In sec. 2.2.9 there are some spurious underscores around component names.

cc: @jricher

[jricher]

I don't see any: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-message-signatures-10.html#section-2.2.9

[yaronf]

“baz”, “qux” and “param” are italicized in the HTML version, and surrounded by “_” in the text version.

[jricher]

The underscores are what make it italicized in the HTML version, there must be a bug in the xml2rfc processing chain from markdown forward.

[martinthomson]

In text (page 24):

   _baz:_ batman

   _qux:_ an empty string

   _param:_ value

[jricher]

The underscores are not in the source:

*baz:* `batman`

*qux:* an empty string

*param:* `value`

https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/blame/main/draft-ietf-httpbis-message-signatures.md#L755-L763

So I'm really not sure what we need to do to fix the text renderer, apart from just not using italics anymore.

[reschke]

...or alternatively, just ignore the plain text version. Changing the plain text rendering of xml2rfc at this point will be hard.

[martinthomson]

You might at least try *baz*: so that the decorations surround the name and not the colon.

[jricher]

@martinthomson already have that in my editor's copy, and that does look better at least in both formats. I think I'll close this issue with that resolution unless there's a better suggestion.