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

Nancy McGough (nancym@ii.com)
Mon, 29 May 1995 11:31:55 -0700 (PDT)

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On Sat, 27 May 1995, Chris Lewis wrote:
> } 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.
>
> I don't think it splits it into multiple files. It builds a TOC where each
> button is an offset into the file.

Actually, it does split the digest items into a separate files (at
least it did on my FAQs!). Do you know of an example of an FAQ in
digest format that isn't split into separate files by the Ohio
server?

> The only stupid thing it does is not recognize existing plaintext TOCs,
> and TOCs the TOC as it were ;-)

Yes, this does look a little weird. The way I've dealt with that is
to not have the TOC be a separate digest item; instead I just have it
as part of the "Introduction." That way at least you don't see "TOC"
in the TOC.

-Nancy

PS - If anyone knows of any URLs related to finding and writing FAQs,
could you send them to me so I can add them to:

http://www.best.com/~ii/internet/faqs.html

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