The discussion so far has been blissfully ignorant of the excellent
FAQ archive at Utrecht. Check it out if you haven't.
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/cgi-bin/faqwais
(Yup, on one of those loser continents ... but they do have the
Jacksonville Jaguars [American] football FAQ nevertheless ;^)
They don't have split FAQs either, tho.
> Yet ... many readers want to read an FAQ straight through and would
> rather use the page down key on their keyboards rather than clicking
> and waiting for a download for the next topic.
Let me just add that if you need a hardcopy, the split format is a
+major+ annoyance.
On a slightly different note, wouldn't it be time to start thinking
about using the authors' original HTML sources where these are
available? Most FAQ:s I know are being maintained as parallel HTML
versions, often with added goodies such as real illustrations.
While there should probably be some level of formal standard a la
news.answers guidelines (no annoying backgrounds, for example) I think
this would be more resource efficient than the HTML FAQ archive
maintainers trying to cover every possible trick that the FAQ:s might
contain.
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Football footnote: "American football" is the game that is not called
"soccer" in the US. Me, I can hardly tell the difference between them.
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