I would recommend by the news.answers name. The other name is so cryptic
that it would be tough for a user to type correctly.
> 2. What about multi-part FAQs - do I use asterisks (*) ?
I have done this two ways. If what I am coding is a simple reference, I
use a * or a [1-3] or whatever. If however I am specfically wanting it
to generate a hypertext link when my FAQ is converted to HTML by Ohio
State's FAQ to HTML gateway, then I specify each URL individually as
<URL:ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/news.answers/tcl-faq/part01>
for example.
>3. What is the best way to format >75 char long URLs - do I break the line
>somewhere?
Boy, you are FULL of good questions! To date I refuse to break my URLs,
meaning that some are longer than 80 characters. As a user of FAQs, I
really dislike trying to cut and paste a broken URL together - and when
I fgrep URLs out of a document, I end up with a partial URL. At the
very least, I would recommend that you break at a / so that the user
has a complete path to that point for the URL.
--Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org Personal: 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614 Anything said in this email is my opinion, and not necessarily my employer's.
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