Re: FAQ formatting

Kate the Short (katew@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu)
Mon, 27 Jan 97 14:05:50 CST

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> >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. :)
>
> god i used to do this, but i recently switched to just ASCII. would you
> guys say this was a wise thing? most of my audience is on the web, if that
> matters in your recommendation.

The easiest thing to do is to take the text version, and use the HTML
forms:

<pre>

FAQ in here

</pre>

If you choose to make the links clickable, you can do that within the
<pre> tags, and just cut and paste from the newer text version. Makes
it much easier to keep them updated. Maybe once a year you need to
overhaul the entire thing.

(Or, you could just post it to a newsgroup, and save the source version
after viewing it in Netscape-- there would be no mailto's, but all of
the main http links would work.)

kate.

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