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Subject: 
Re: Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:57:01 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
The main rationale behind the FAQ format is to have a common source base
from which different publishing formats can be acheived.  For the purposes
of LUGNET, these publishing formats include HTML and plain text.

(A super-restricted subset of HTML, that is.)

--Todd



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  Re: Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
 
(...) Whoops -- thanks Todd; allow me to clarify. s/publishing/output/ig The *final* *output* format of the FAQ may be plain text, it may be DHTML, or it may be etched in 36-bit EBCDIC-encoded XML in Farsi on stone tablets; the FAQ format supports (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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  Re: Munafo's FAQ submissions (was Re: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
 
(...) The format won't make it impossible to convert back to plain ASCII. It will, however, make it possible to incorporate into a larger, searchable, multimedia FAQ. The main rationale behind the FAQ format is to have a common source base from (...) (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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