Darn right. The key motivation for most of the recent proposals has been
to make FAQs more hypertext-friendly. I have no objection to making small
changes for this purpose, but I *will not* do anything that degrades the
readability of my FAQ as plain ASCII text. It will be years before a
majority of my readers have hypertext software.
If the hypertext folk can't cope with files that are pretty close to "ASCII
as she is spoke", then they haven't a prayer of dealing with most of the info
that's out there on the net. *They* need to adapt to *us*, not vice versa.
As for reformatting FAQs into LaTeX or whatever, that's not even a blip on the
radar screen. I like LaTeX --- I've written many manuals and my PhD thesis in
LaTeX --- but a FAQ is not a thesis. What a FAQ should be is an on-line
reference that's easy to search with standard tools like grep. LaTeX and
other typographical markup tools do not aid this goal, they only get in the
way.
another two cents worth, tom lane
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