Re: FAQ formatting

wanderer@cyberbeach.net
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:15:14 -0500

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>
> Lars Idema <idema@dds.nl> asked:
>
> >> 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.
>

I used to maintain an ASCII *and* HTML versions and imagine the pain of
updating both versions. One day I realized I could just save the HTML as
ASCII and be done with it. :)

Mike

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