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From: David L. Nicol <david@kasey.umkc.edu>

>"POD" a.k.a. "Plain Old Documentation" would serve this need; it is
>readable in plain form, and has a bare minumum of tags for creating things
>like bulleted lists and paragraph headings and links.

I have always believed in the KISS approach, or 'Keep It Simple Stupid'.

My 3 FAQ's are in a semi laid out (some converter specific codes), which is
run though a converter. Said converter generates Text and HTML versions,
that are separated into the relevant sections, and TOC (in the HTML
version), with links after every answer back to the index... :)

And even the HTML version is minimally HTML'd

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