Re: HTMLize a FAQ

David Alex Lamb (dalamb@qucis.queensu.ca)
Wed, 16 Nov 94 11:52:58 EST

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I dunno if there's any point to posting an HTML version of the FAQ.
*referencing* an HTML version in a posted ASCII faq does make a lot of sense.
If you have a single HTML file for a FAQ, it would be possible to run Mosaic,
choose "save as", and generate the ASCII version that way. Mine have always
been a bit too complicated for that.

I have been converting my FAQs to HTML over the last couple of months.
The main technique I have been using is to maintain the original as a TROFF
source file, generate the posted FAQ with one set of macros (via gtroff
-Tascii), and generate the HTML file(s) by running through gtroff with a
different set of macros (.pp becomes <p>, for example). I also use a horde of
sed and awk (and probably eventually perl) scripts -- I've always assembled
the FAQs from collections of separate files, so adding a few more
html-generating steps wasn't very hard.

I'm investigating linuxdoc-sgml, which can genereate ascii, postscript, and
html from the same sgml-tagged source, but don't have anything to report
(other than that it looks promising).

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