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 in inkscape for cleanliness.

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

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

requires dia

cd figures python dia2pdf.py 

By default, there is a text width of 80 characters unless there is an explicit need 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 figures where it's sensitive to linebreaks).