Re: HTMLize a FAQ

Mark Bixby (markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu)
Wed, 16 Nov 1994 09:56:20 -0800 (PST)

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Christopher Klaus writes:
> In my FAQs, I make a lot of references to files and information points
> on the Internet. I am starting to htmlize my faqs for my own web server.
>
> have any of you started posted the FAQs in html format?
>
> i could see that it might exclude some ppl from being able to read the
> FAQ, but there is lynx, a vt100 html reader.

Not long ago I converted the alt.support.tinnitus faq to html. This was
quite a large plaintext document, so I fed it to one of the ascii->html
converters and then hand-tweaked it.

Because there are still many people without web access, I also publish a
plaintext version derived by running the html version through html-to-ascii.
If you design the html version with plaintext conversion in mind, the plaintext
version doesn't look too bad.

You can see my results at:

http://www.cccd.edu/faq/tinnitus.html
ftp://ftp.cccd.edu/pub/faq/tinnitus.txt

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