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Re: general discussion

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From: Robert Kiesling (kiesling@mainmatter.com)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 15:21:16 CDT


> I think that this may be a question of what mental reference point one
> uses. Since I think of the Web version as being more useful, I like the
> link (the blue underlined stuff) to be meaningful in terms of the topic.
> So I don't like to use the literal URL as the link. But then when it is
> translated to text one does need the URL printed.

I'd prefer not to interpret the URL's and leave that to the reader. I
suppose if it were really an issue, however, then the HTML version
could label the URL's both with the URL itself and the maintainer's
annotation.

> This would be very helpful. Instead I don't use tables in my faq.

I'm trying at the moment to work something out in Perl that will
format the tables. Wouldn't hold my breath, though. :)

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Robert Kiesling
Linux FAQ Maintainer 
rkiesling@mainmatter.com



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