Re: MS Word 6.0.1 (Mac) w/Internet Assistant, ClarisWorks (fwd)

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Nick Zitzmann (nickzman@eskimo.com)
17 Jul 96 01:05:56 -0700

> I would be in favor of
> seeing something like a Hypercard program for writing FAQs that takes
> care of the formatting for the user and generates the HTML. Sure, not
> everything will be under their control but I think it can be a good
> start. I saw something like this for users to be able to create their
> own web page. Certainly it didn't do everything (i.e. no frames, etc.)
> but it got them going and it worked.

HyperCard is way too lightweight for writing FAQs, except for the smallest
of small FAQs. I think that, on a Mac, if you don't use something like
BBEdit to write up the original FAQ, you don't have a prayer. My FAQ (and
its WWW site) were all written using BBEdit. There's no way SimpleText
could have done the same kind of work. <8*)

But if you want a WWW site automatically generated, there **is** a Perl
script out there called "WebPress" which takes a series of articles, links
them together, and generates a table of contents for everything. I haven't
tried it on my FAQ, but it might be one solution for what you're talking
about above. You'll need the latest version of MacPerl to use it, so get
that first from your favorite Info-Mac mirror.

WebPress can be downloaded from: <ftp://ftp.spub.ksu.edu/>

Nick Zitzmann http://orion.edmonds.wednet.edu/
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