Someone else wrote this:
> > 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.
>
Finally someone added this:
> 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.
Oh how this thread grows. Anyway there is a downside to simply using
ASCII, or using HTML and the <pre> tag. I guess it depends on your FAQ:
My HTML FAQ incorporates in-line images, links, animated GIF's, sound
files and the normal hypertext goodies (mailto, etc etc). The FAQ could
almost be looked upon as a web page of its own. If I were to choose
plain ASCII, a lot would be lost such as the sound samples of songs (I
run an Ozzy Osbourne FAQ) and pictures (yea, the actual biting of the
dove). If I simply used HTML and <pre>, well, it would be essentially
the same as a text file.
I suppose it is just me and the way I've included external files into my
FAQ, but I require an HTML version. Erhm, what *does* this have to do
with FAQ formatting anyways? :)
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