Re: FAQ formatting

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era eriksson (reriksso@cc.helsinki.fi)
Thu, 30 Jan 1997 04:37:56 +0200 (EET)


On 29 Jan 1997 21:15:22 -0500,
Justin Sheehy <dworkin@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
> [various stuff about HTML to not include in a printed FAQ]
> <a href="http://some.url.com">&lt;http://some.url.com&gt;</a>
> This is silly and redundant. You shouldn't do this in an online doc,
> let alone a printed one.

Why not? I mean, I can understand why nobody would want to type in a
monstrosity like that, but that can be left to the computer.
In fact, I think "live URL:s" like the above are a necessity for
documents which should be readable and understandable both as
hypertext and hardcopy. If you can click, you click, and if you can't,
you make a mark in the margin and try it sometime when you're at a
computer.

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