sorry for any dupication
> From: Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: Nick Boalch <n.g.boalch@durham.ac.uk>
was trying to post to list rather than just to Nick and fumbled it.
> > Does it make sense to include both? If so, should every FAQ do this?
>
> It depends how bothered you are about people getting your FAQ, or getting
> the most up-to-date version at least. It's arguable that the fact that
> someone's reading your URL header suggests that they already /have/ a copy
> of your FAQ, though.
'a copy' may not be realistic, if it resides on a web-server somewhere and
can only be 'passed around' in ASCII.
> On the other hand, it may be useful to direct users to a page where the
> FAQ is available firstly in an up-to-date form (you'd be surprised how
> many ancient copies of your FAQ are circulating...) and secondly in other
> formats which a reader might prefer, such as HTML, DVI or a PostScript
> version for printing.
exactly. putting the URL at the top of the file regardless of whether it
is in HTML or ASCII posted to usenet serves this function.
> On this, completely unrelated, issue of printing, it's certainly worth
> providing a version of your FAQ specifically designed for print, since most
> web browsers make a godawful job of rendering a page for printing. Knock
> up a PostScript (or PDF) version and link it in to your HTML version with:
>
> <link rel="alternate" media="print" href="faq-for-print.ps" type=
> "application/postscript" />
>
> in the document header. Good browsers can use that to fetch and print a
> version specifically intended for print rather than hashing up a version
> from the HTML.
thanks. my wife and I tend to plan for this by making sure that we have a
500 pixel width graphic which provides the outside border for the browser,
as we'd understood that 500 pixels pretty much accomodates any printer and
allows someone to adjust their browser window to that width and us to make
what we're coding to the proper dimension to fit on most printers. does
this sound reasonable?
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