Lightning Network Paper

This is the Bitcoin Lightning Network paper.

Paper PDF: http://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf

#Compiling/Editing

Paper is in LaTeX format. Diagrams are in dia, but may remake the diagrams ininkscape for cleanliness.

Updating bibliography

If you're not familiar with latex, updating bibliography requires running:

pdflatex new.tex
bibtex new
pdflatex new.tex
pdflatex new.tex

Generating figures

requires dia

cd figures
python dia2pdf.py

Formatting

By default, there is a text width of 80 characters unless there is an explicitneed to go longer.

If you want to do formatting of paragraphs, the vim settings are:

:set tw=80

If you want to reflow text, it's

<ESC>gqj

If you want to reflow an entire paragraph, it's

<ESC>gq}

There are a couple places where reflowing will break (primarily in figureswhere it's sensitive to linebreaks).