Re: SGML and FAQs (was: One FAQ, multiple newsgroups)

William R. Ward (hermit@bayview.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 15:42:25 -0700

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In article <199609271751.NAA18209@renoir.Grafnetix.COM>, Vic Metcalfe <vam@brutus.tlug.org> writes:
[...]
) On your advice, Andreas, I added comp.lang.sgml to my news feed, and
) within about three days someone mentioned the linuxdoc-sgml-1.5.tar.gz
) package. This is the package used by the Linux-Documentation-Project.
) It looks incredible. From the README file:
)
) "Linuxdoc-SGML is a text-formatting package based on SGML (Standard
) Generalized Markup Language), which allows you to produce LaTeX,
) HTML, GNU info, LyX, RTF, and plain ASCII (via groff) from a single source;
) due to the flexible nature of SGML many other target formats are possible.
[...]

I have started using linuxdoc-sgml for my FAQ (rec.boats.marketplace).
It works quite well. My only complaint is that it does not generate
hyperlinks for URL's in the HTML mode. I plan to suggest this to the
author(s).

--Bill Ward, moderator, rec.boats.marketplace.

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