Re: Maintenance for both flat text and HTML?

Per Goetterup (pg@login.dknet.dk)
Sun, 04 Jun 1995 16:43:18 +0100

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In article <199505180120.SAA16290@netcom15.netcom.com>,
dhawk@netcom.com (David H) wrote:
> > What solutions have FAQ maintainers found for the problems with
> > maintaining both a flat ascii text version of a FAQ (suitable for posting
> > and archival) and an HTML version (suitable for residence on an HTTP server)?
>
> I maintain my FAQ's in html and use 'lynx' (a text only viewer
> for web stuff) to read in the html and 'print' to a text file.
> Since my editor is vi, this is the nerdy way to do it. ;-)

I do most of my maintaining offline (on a DOS PC) and I maintain my FAQ
in HTML, then use my own HTML->text converter that's 100% automatic and
can be called from a batchfile. It preserves the layout as it would have
looked when browsed using Netscape and supports all lists, formatting
and so on. The output from this utility is then posted. I think this is
even more nerdy, writing my own program to handle things! ;-)

If any of you are interested in this converter (for DOS!), let me know
and you may have a copy of the executable. Be warned, it only handles a
small subset of HTML-tags that I myself use in my FAQ. It can easily be
expanded if needed though - but I felt no reason to do that when it was
for myself and I didn't need it.

> Speaking of nerdy, I maintain the html in SCCS (source code control)
> to keep track of version numbers and changes.

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Sure! You start with stealing only tag lines, then...

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