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I'm a FAQ newbie. My FAQ on the database application FileMaker Pro
(for Macintosh and Windows) just dropped in to the usual FAQ sites (see
<http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/databases/
filemaker-pro/faq/faq.html>
Sorry, if my questions belong to yet another FAQ.

I tried to stay conform to the minimal suggested digest format but had to
see several problems:

1. Any line that begins with subject is used as section separator, although
the suggestion claims you should use dashes AND blank lines before AND
afterwards to get this behaviour.

The lines are a quotation and look like

*** To subscribe to this list:
Send to: LISTSERV@listserv.dartmouth.edu
Subject: subscribe
Message: subscribe fmpro-l <your full name here>

Is it a bug, will it get fixed, should I change the line, e.g. by indenting
all and marking it with any comment symbol or is there any other solution?

2. Some URLs spread several lines, e.g.

* Create a script:
<gopher://spinaltap.micro.umn.edu/00/computer/Claris/FileMaker/
Moving%20Data%20to%20Repeating%20Fields%20Using%20a%20Script>

Only the first line of the URL gets highlighted. I'm afraid that although I
set < > around all, the indention corrupted these lines. Is there any fix?

Thanks for your help
Martin

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