At 11:42 PM -0500 12/18/01, Ganesh wrote:
>Thanks for that. I thing I will do something similiar. But the real
>problem is
>when you have a single contributor for a section. ;-)
I would still do it the same way, if one person has provided the
information but not a usable write-up. Of course, I'd make extra sure
to pat them on the back for all the help etc blah blah, to try to make
sure they didn't feel bad about having their stuff rewritten. In
practice, I've never had anyone offended by this -- generally the
people who can provide information but don't write well, recognize
their limitations and appreciate my collaboration.
>One more favor please. ;-) I really liked the fact that you have a
>HTMLized
>version (multi-part) of your faq at the archive. Can anyone point me
>to the
>instructions for doing the same for my faq?
Short answer: use Chris Lewis's Minimal Digest Format. Not
surprisingly, there is an FAQ for this ... at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/faqs/minimal-digest-format/index.html
When you use Minimal Digest Format, Kent's scripts recognize it
automatically and do all the rest.
Slightly longer answer: find my misc.health.diabetes FAQ on your
favorite newsreader (or on http://groups.google.com) and imitate it.
The separator lines of 30 hyphens, followed by a Subject line, with
blank lines before and after each, are the critical elements. You can
see this approximately by clicking on the "single page" link at the top
of the section I previously cited, but in the faqs.org presentation the
lines of 30 hyphens have been replaced by HTML elements and so it's not
a good version to imitate.
Mine's far from the only one. Somewhere on faqs.org there's a link to
show all the FAQs that have been handled in this way (called
"multipart" or something like that).
That is absolutely all I do: the separator, Subject, and blank lines.
Kent does the rest.
Edward Reid
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