Re: my html & text version method

Pamela Greene (pgreene@optics.rochester.edu)
Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:09:56 -0400 (EDT)

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Jason Hinson wrote:
> I warn you though, I am quite picky about having
> very good looking versions of each [HTML and text].
>
> First, I keep one copy of the FAQ which I call a "source" version. It
> is not pure HTML, nor is it pure text. It contains various tags which
> a perl script of mine recognizes to produce both an HTML version and a
> semi-text version (I'll explain that in a bit). I can put in a "for
> text" tag () or a "for html" tag to put things
> only in the text version or html version

I'm pretty picky, too, and I keep mine almost excactly the same way,
although since my tags aren't as sophisticated, I add a makefile and a
perl script to add some common headers and footers. If anybody's
interested, the (documented) perl script I use to generate the
versions (and info on several other options, as well) is available
from David A. Lamb's page of FAQ Maintenance Aids,
http://www.qucis.queensu.ca/FAQs/FAQaid/

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