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: 1994-08-30 13:55:48 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!ub4b!EU.net!uunet!news.sprintlink.net!news.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca (Joshua Bell) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii Subject: Re: Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ? Date: 30 Aug 1994 07:00:38 -0500 Organization: University Computing Services (The University of Calgary) Lines: 32 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <33v716$jpn@gagme.wwa.com> References: <33tklt$i5k@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:1568 alt.ascii-art:13890 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.

Joshua
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