Re: Using SGML for FAQs

Cameron Simpson (cs@zip.com.au)
Thu, 20 May 1999 03:31:53 +0000

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On 7 May 1999, in message <3732A0C8.3746C4FF@iway.fr>
"Pahle, Morten Gleditsch" <pahle@iway.fr> wrote:
| Some time ago, I created a new FAQ, which was meant primarily for
| posting on USENET and hence the FAQ was ASCII.
| However, there is ofcourse a certain interest in making it available for
| a wider audience, so I'd like to have the FAQ in HTML format for web
| publishing, or .PS or .PDF fomat if people want to print it.
[...]
| These are as follows:
| Has anyone done this? I mean, does anyone maintain their FAQ in SGML
| Format? (Is there a FAQ DTD?)

I maintain mine in a sort of proto HTML.

It's a collection of files for the various sections which are collated
into the main pieces (3 of) by a script and transmuted into HTML with
some simple conversions (just to turn a bit of shorthand into nicely
marked up stuff). THe HTML gets put on the web, and I convert the HTML
into plain text for posting to USENET.

| Are there SGML to HTML and SGML to ASCIII (etc.) converters out there
| which can be easily used?

Sorry, can't help.

| (And - last but not least) Do any of the necessary tools exist for
| Win95?

Garg. I run my stuff on UNIX boxes, where automation is simple.

-- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 cs@zip.com.au http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/

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