Re: FAQ formatting

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Mama Lani (lani@lava.net)
Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:54:53 -1000 (HST)

On Mon, 27 Jan 1997, Terry Carroll wrote:
> My feeling is that it's only partially a technical question, and the key
> is to adapt your writing to the dual medium of web and ASCII. What I'm
> leaning towards is writing as if for pure ASCII or print medium, so that
> any URLs are expressly stated, and then putting in the links only on the
> URLs.

I recently made a big decision to change the ascii version of my
Travelite FAQ. It had a long section near the end where I had an
annotated bibliography of related URLs. After I'd stripped all the tags I
was left with a big long list of sites that didn't have built-in links. I
looked at it long and hard, and said to myself, "Well if they're reading
the ascii version of this, then they might not have web access. Why am I
providing links for people who might not have web access?" The result is
that I now only have the annotated list available in the html version,
because that's where it comes in real handy (see an interesting URL?
click to it).

For me, stripping the tags off an html document is fine unless it's got a
lot of links that are relevant to the document.

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