Re: news.answers.rtfm

Thomas A. Fine (fine@cis.ohio-state.edu)
Mon, 29 Nov 93 12:35:39 -0500

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>
>I recently posted a comment regarding maintaining FAQs in html format.
>My intention was not to suggest that people to start using this as *the*
>standard format, but to suggest that a site (e.g., rtfm.mit.edu)
>provide a WWW service to the internet where faq maintainers could dump
>html formats of their FAQs and users could access them using Mosaic.
>Updates could be done using a method similar to the current one
>for the plain-text versions. The html format would be provided in
>addition to the plain-text format, on a completely voluntary basis.
>It took me a couple of hours today to convert my faq (i.e., the
>comp.soft-sys.matlab one) to a semi-texinfo format and to write perl
>scripts which convert this format to .html and to plain text (using
>help from nroff).
>
>Matt

If people want to offer their FAQ directly in HTML, mail me the reference,
and I will include it instead of the "converted" posting.

tom

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