X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,be7ecceadeff64b8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: fbb9d,be7ecceadeff64b8 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb9d,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,be7ecceadeff64b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-31 07:24:06 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Re: Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ? Date: 30 Aug 1994 17:07:01 -0500 Organization: WorldWide Access (SM) Chicagoland Internet Services Lines: 50 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <340ai5$9ko@gagme.wwa.com> References: <33tklt$i5k@gagme.wwa.com> <33v716$jpn@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:1573 alt.ascii-art:13905 Joshua Bell wrote: > >In article <33tklt$i5k@gagme.wwa.com>, Bob Allison wrote: >> So, would you like to see a special version of the FAQ specifically >>made for the web? > >Here's what I do: > >Maintain the HTML version *only*. When it is time to post the >plain text version, do: > >lynx -dump faq.html > faq.txt > >Then post faq.txt. Myself, I have an automated utility that does >this for the Star Trek FAQs I maintain, but it really is that >simple. Lynx treats ASCII art inside 
 blocks kindly,
>so it should work well for the ASCII art FAQs - I have an ASCII
>graph in one of my FAQs.
>
>However!
>
>Be sure to go through the faq.txt file before posting; Lynx does
>a pretty good job of rendering things, but if you have some
>(mostly illegal) HTML combinations, it can look really gross. But
>if the FAQ looks good with Lynx, the -dumped version should look
>good as well. Once you've got the bugs out, the process is just
>mechanical.


   The only problem is that I would probably HTML'ize the FAQ portion (or
maybe all of the) ASCII Art Resources file.  This file has a lot of ASCII
art included, some of which is wrapped with text.

   This type of file needs to be HTML'ized after it is changed.  It would
be very hard to change it once it has embedded HTML tags.  I suppose I
could take the previous week's text version, make the changes I want, and
then transfer those changes to the HTML version.

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