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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel W. Connolly)
Mon Sep 19 14:10:53 1994
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 20:01:34 +0200
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From: "Daniel W. Connolly" <connolly@hal.com>
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In message <9409191622.AA07106@mun18>, jim.anderson@fi.gs.com writes:
>Has anyone given any thought to a 'plain text standard' for FAQs that
>would allow servers to automatically generate the corresponding html
>versions?
Yes. See
http://www.bsdi.com/setext/
After thinking about it some more, I think something based on GNU info
might be more useful. (There are no SeText authoring tools, though
emacs indented-text mode works pretty well).
It's tricky... folks that maintain large plaintext documents are usually
interested in having them look nice when printed on an 80x60 page. emacs
and/or nroff are the only tools I know for doing that sort of thing.
It's probably easiest at this point to maintain the FAQ in HTML and
convert it to plain text.
Dan
