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Sunday, August 06, 2000, 2:58:29 PM, Tom Neff sent to
faq-maintainers@faqs.org:
TN> Tom Holub wrote:
TH>> ... this loss of information is why I decided to keep my FAQ's in
TH>> HTML format only, and post them that way. If people want to lynx
TH>> -dump them, let them remove the information themselves.
TN> ... let me suggest in return that with a few very specialized
TN> exceptions, it is difficult to imagine any subject oriented FAQ
TN> that actually requires HTML in order to express its contents
usefully.
Tom, your points concerning text are good, but there are reasons why
an HTML FAQ can be better.
In my case, my FAQ is 53k in size (the REF document is 176k). There
are people who like reading through a FAQ this large, but most want to
find specific information. Using HTML href links I'm able to split the
FAQ into multiple documents by section, and they can *easily* follow
the links to the appropriate section of the FAQ.
As I'm sure most people can understand in a FAQ this large, there are
many cross-references within the FAQ. Again, HTML href links allow
people to easily jump back and forth between related sections.
There's also a benefit to graphics. In the section which discusses the
Pentagram of Set, I'm able to display the pentagram. And graphics of
Set are useful as well.
Balanone
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