Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ?
From Roland Siebelink <rcs...@vub.ac.be>
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· 31 Aug 1994 11:43 · View full thread
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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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