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Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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lugnet.faq
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Thu, 15 Jul 1999 19:21:48 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Todd Lehman writes:
> Robert, I haven't looked closely yet at the rest of your post, but the above
> paragraph is only correct if it's in the future. :) That is, there's no
> program yet that goes and collects things from the group. It might not
> actually even end up working that way; perhaps instead [...]
Yeah, I realized that. I just wrote it that way to help point out how abysmally
incomprehensible it was before.
A better approach would be to write the answer in a way that takes into account
the fact that there is no automatic processing yet but explains that there
might be in the future. Also, show by example rather than stating a terse
symbolic specification. And, lead the person through step-by-step: first you
add the headers, then go through and add your text style tags, then convert
your URLs into valid HREFs. Finally, put the entire text, that's the whole FAQ
formatting explanation, inside a PRE block so it's intelligible regardless of
whether or not it's being read in "raw" form.
- Robert Munafo
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| (...) Robert, I haven't looked closely yet at the rest of your post, but the above paragraph is only correct if it's in the future. :) That is, there's no program yet that goes and collects things from the group. It might not actually even end up (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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