Antwort: FAQ Maintainers Digest for 1/30/97

Peter.Geiser@student.unisg.ch
Fri, 31 Jan 1997 07:44:28 +0200

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> Although I presently maintain only a standard
> ASCII version of my FAQ, I'm strongly compelled by the benefits of
>multiple-
> format documents. I'd like to put out ASCII, HTML, and Postscript
>versions
> of the same file. The only means that I've come across for doing t=
his is
> the highly powerful, though somewhat kludge-y approach of redoing t=
he
> entire file in LaTeX or one of its variants. [...]

> I'm interested in hearing any other suggestions about this interest=
ing
> problem. Certainly, most garden-variety Windows/Mac-based word
>processors
> aren't up to the task (at least it would take a fair amount of
>futzing with
> the mouse to do what I could do in a single command line), yet on t=
he
> other hand, there must be an easier method than writing the whole t=
hing
> in LaTeX or SGML or some similarly obscure markup language, origina=
lly
> designed for the typesetting industry.

I maintian my FAQs in HTML since more than one year. Having them spli=
t to a
total of
about 15-20 files, I naturally would like to convert them automatical=
ly. So
I have written
an AWK-.Script, and more lately, a Perl-Script that does exactly the =
same.
While it certainly
is not the best you can get, it still works fine for me.
If anybody would like a copy, feel free to contact me.

Regards
Peter

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