Re: FAQ formatting

era eriksson (reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi)
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 17:57:06 +0200 (EET)

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

The semi-obvious solution is to use an abstract format which can
encapsulate both HTML and ASCII, perhaps with different realizations
of different constucts (for example, links could display as indented
URL:s in the ASCII version, whereas the HTML version can use different
phrasing with "click here" and live links instead). Various SGML
engines will do this; sgmldoc (ex Linuxdoc) is rather popular and in
widespread use. Docbook was brought up last time this was discussed
here.

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