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-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-03 02:24:27 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!udel!news.sprintlink.net!sashimi.wwa.com!gagme.wwa.com!not-for-mail From: collinf@crow.csrv.uidaho.edu (Collin Forbes) Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art Subject: Talk: Should I html'ize the FAQ? Date: 3 Sep 1994 02:04:15 -0500 Organization: University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho Lines: 24 Sender: boba@gagme.wwa.com Approved: boba@wwa.com Message-ID: <34975f$ifl@gagme.wwa.com> References: <33tklt$i5k@gagme.wwa.com> <33v716$jpn@gagme.wwa.com> <340ai5$9ko@gagme.wwa.com> <340s90$hj8@gagme.wwa.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gagme.wwa.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de rec.arts.ascii:1607 alt.ascii-art:13968 Joshua Bell (jsbell@acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote: : Maintaining HTML documents is MUCH simpler than maintaining plain : text documents; no worries about formatting! No need to juggle : word wrapping! The drudgery of adding in new hyperlinks is about : the only downer. Yeah, but in your "awful html example" you conveniently "hid" the < > escapes needed to pass "<" and ">" through the html parser, yes, even in 
 structures.

It's no big deal usually, but in an ASCII ART FAQ, at least half the
pictures will contain a "<" or ">", sometimes in large quantities.  It
sounds like too much bother.

Now if you were to convert the art into GIFs, and inline them into the
html faq--THAT would be something to behold.  :)

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