>> QUESTION: How does one manage to maintain only *one* 'rich-text' document
>> and draw both HTML and plain ascii documents from it?
>>
>> I could of course format it all in HTML and have Netscape save it to ASCII,
>> but I would like the Web-FAQ to contain lots of links, and I would not like
>> to have these links or other web-stuff show up in the ASCII version. Simply
>> cutting them out later by hand would leave me with many half lines, so
>> that's no solution.
Thank heaven for a post about something other than line lengths.
I don't know whether this is a viable solution for Lars, but what I do
is keep the source document in HTML. I then pipe it through a filter
to change some of the HTML stuff before saving it from a browser as
ASCII text. I attach the filter which I use on a UNIX system. To see
it in action, view the HTML source of my FAQ on my WWW Ambisonic page.
I use the Mosaic browser to save the ASCII text because this allows
control of the line length (oh no, not the line length!) - you simply
adjust the width of the browser window before saving. Mosaic also
allows you to create formatted text which I prefer to Netscape's
unformatted text. I use the Netscape browser to save in PostScript
as it is much superior to Mosaic's PostScript. Many, many people
print out FAQs, so I believe it is worthwhile to offer a PostScript
version via anonymous FTP.
Have fun,
Martin
E-mail: mleese@omg.unb.ca
WWW: http://www.omg.unb.ca/~mleese/
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