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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 31 Aug 1994.
Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ?

Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ?

Joshua Bell (jsb...@acs.ucalgary.ca) beweerde hier:
>In article <33tklt$i5...@gagme.wwa.com>, Bob Allison <bob...@wwa.com> wrote:
>>   So, would you like to see a special version of the FAQ specifically 
>>made for the web?

>Here's what I do:

>Maintain the HTML version *only*. When it is time to post the
>plain text version, do:

>lynx -dump faq.html > faq.txt

I do the same for the European Union Basics (FAQ) list, but I use the CERN
LineMode Browser for my screendumps: it renders my HTMLplus documents
better (although this may be a question of taste) but more importantly: it
keeps the links by inserting [1] type footnote numbers in the text and
giving a list of URLs at the end of the document. This is done with the
command:

cat faq.html | www -listrefs > faq.txt

You may see a demo of the CERN LineModeBrowser by telnet to info.cern.ch
(no login).
--
Roland Siebelink <rcs...@vub.ac.be> -- <rcs...@is3e.vub.ac.be> for finger

         + Democracy arises out of the renunciation of certainty,
       or at least the renunciation that one man (m/f) could impose
       his certainty on another man. ; -- adapted from The Economist

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