Re: HTMLize a FAQ

Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Thu, 17 Nov 1994 10:15:00 -0500 (EST)

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> Has anyone written any utilities for this purpose? What I could really
> use is a utility that would take an input file containing the questions
> and answers in some format, and create two output files:
>
> 1) A text version, with a table of contents at the top and correct numbers
> throughout. I imagine something like this probably exists.
>
> 2) An HTML version, where the table of contents was links to the appropriate
> section in the FAQ, and where any URL's in the input file were converted
> to links.

I have a utility (a perl script) I wrote which does this. (It also
does a fair bit of specialized massaging of the files for my FAQ, but
I could easily take that out.) If you're interested, within a few
days I could probably clean it up, document it, and send you a copy.

I'd also be willing to make the script a bit more general, if a couple
of people could agree on a format for it to look for. I should warn
you, though, there's still a fair amount of work involved in creating
the "source" version of your FAQ for this script to chew on.

- :P (Pam Greene <pgreene@optics/rochester.edu>)
Keeper of the Ferret FAQ

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