You answered the question with a negative, suggesting that you use
everything else in the world. That's a lot of tools. You may want to
clarify how to do maintain HTML and ASCII version of your FAQ.
Myself, I actually use Netscape Gold for MS-Windows 95, which crashes a
lot but I prefer it to the only other HTML editor I have, HTMLed Pro.
Normally I create HTML documents in a word processor without any
Internet Assistant type packages, i.e. as a plain text document using the
basic tools of spell check and such. Then I normally convert it by hand
to HTML 2.0 or lately HTML 3.0 draft.
This was becoming a burden lately in that I didn't have any HTML verifier
under MS-Windows, so I easily missed things like missing quotes in anchor
tags and did not change '&' to '&'. I would suggest doing the HTML by
hand, following as close as you can to the HTML 3.0 draft specs, trying
your best not to use any Netscape/Internet Explorer only tags.
> HTML doesn't handle whitespace well, if it can be said to understand it at
>
> > Ever hear of word processing? That's what an FAQ is.
>
> _text_ processing.
HTML is hypertext markup language, it is not a publishing package, HTML is
not WYSIWYG itself. You cannot know how another people's client software
is going to display your hypertext document, that's all there is to it.
This concept is the biggest hurdle to understanding HTML, that makes it
the total opposite of the Adobe Acrobat package which is a document
publishing tool.
> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, David A. Roth wrote:
> > WYSIWYG works for Adobe's PDF files
>
> It most certainly does not, as a stream of posts in the RISKS digest,
> detailing how Acrobat simply doesn't show text if it decides it doesn't
> have an appropriate font, testify. Since experiencing this myself while
For the Mac I recommend looking into ClayTablet which is freeware. It
handles things like converting URLs into links, having templates for
every page, generating 'next' and 'previous' links and converting entities.
I also recommend using a HTML verifier service on the net which looks at
your documents and HTML checks it. Following the rules makes it render
correctly on a wider number of platforms. Not everyone uses Netscape or IE.
Don't forget text-browsers like Lynx, and that people over slow connects
(like 400kbps - People I work with still turn auto images transfer off on
a fractial T1) so use ALT tags in images and have a text menu for
imagemaps.
-Michael Taylor <mctaylor@mailserv.mta.ca>
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