Re: FAQ formats (was: Perl HTML conversion script)

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Nancy McGough (nancym@ii.com)
Sat, 27 May 1995 11:55:16 -0700 (PDT)


On Sat, 27 May 1995, Pat Berry wrote:
> Frederic Albrecht <fred@calvacom.fr> writes:
> > The only thing is that the digest format only supports one hierarchical
> > level and I have two, but I guess that having a few subsections inside of
> > one section doesn't really hurt...

You can kind of simulate multiple levels by writing your Subject lines
like this:

Subject: 1.0 Level One
Subject: ... 1.1 Level Two
Subject: ... ... 1.1.1 Level Two

I think the periods (...) are necessary for it to show up right in
the Ohio hypertext Table of Contents. It's kind of ugly in the plain
text FAQ but it makes it so it's easy to see the structure of the FAQ
in the hyper TOC.

> > It seems that the University of Ohio conversion creates one HTML page for
> > each of the sections (everything that starts with the hyphen line and the
> > "Subject:" line. Is this correct ?
>
> Yes. It's not exactly cutting-edge hypertext, but it does let people
> click on a TOC entry and go straight to that section instead of
> scrolling through the whole thing.

Another advantage is that it's fast to download because the Web
browser only downloads the section(s) the user is interested in
instead of the whole thing.

Nancy "don't ever fork your FAQ base text" McGough

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