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From: gg@superdec.uni.uiuc.edu (gg)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art
Subject: Talk: WWW text
Date: 16 Mar 1995 15:14:10 -0600
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jorn@mcs.com (Jorn Barger) writes:


>In article <3jon7d$2n7@gagme.wwa.com>, Bob Allison <boba@wwa.com> wrote:
>>Remember that characters like < and > are used in the invisible command
>>structure on the Web, and you must escape them to make them appear
>>without screwing things up.

>Before 'wrapping' your art in <PRE> </PRE> tags, do global
>search-and-replace, for:

>&  --->  &amp;   [do this first, because you'll be adding more &'s]

>>  --->  &gt;
><  --->  &lt;

Yes.  But DON'T DO THIS IN THE TEXT ALTS.

This won't work with lynx on text alt's.  I was about to post this same 
response, but then I realized that lynx just puts the text up real fast 
without interpreting it... the &gt &amp &lt just appear as &gt &amp &lt
etc.

>You don't need to put any extra spaces before or after these
>substitutions.

>>  And you have to tag ASCII art with <pre> or <tt>.

>Mosaic ignores <tt> for some reason-- stick with <pre>, in general.
>Lynx apparently has a known bug that causes it to ignore &gt; and/or
>&lt; ...but that should be fixed in the next release...

Eh?  It works fine for me.  I've been developing a man page server that
does it just fine, and I almost always test it with lynx.