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(...) [snip] (...) This is definitely something you need to do. I think that if you change the rather dull description "Ongoing maintenance and development" into "Release of new parts, programs and add on's" that item on voting procedures will catch (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) It would be super-cool if we had a cross-platform way to give some sort of "see-also" link from one FAQ question to another -- so that the links could be handled in a way most appropriate to their target platform... In an LDraw-oriented FAQ (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) I'm just curious, FMI (1): Why generate them on-the-fly when you only really need to generate them once after a change? What advantage does on-the-fly generation give us? Or when you say transparent caching, that means that the FAQ items are (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Todd: (...) OK. On www.ldraw.org it will definitely be files (I need the processor to run X and other things). Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) "this" refers to using URLS to point to other FAQ items. "its" as in "its capability" refers to the essential capability to use URLs to point to other FAQ items. (...) I'm not sure about never ever (1) but it'd still be nice to point to other (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) No, because it's unlikely that the website will contain any files with the .html extension -- they'll definitely all be generated on-the-fly (dunno what the URLs will look like yet) with transparent caching of generated content. (...) Yup, (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Do we really need duplicates in the output, though? Physical location in the subdirectory structure can be worked around. Also, at this point, I'm inclined to scrap the Location header (1), since I can't see any real use for it. Cheers, - (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Jeremy, what are the antecedent of the words "this" and "its" in your sentence above? The general idea of referring via "see ..." to another question, or the "#xxx" anchors? I hope there never ever* is a need for any "#xxx" anchors in this (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Okay, I got it. From my end, I can guarantee that all FAQ items (1) have unique file names. This is the key thing, to be able to find a specific file by its name, in any subdirectory. So, to make a HREF to "#whatsitz" in file "flarn.en.html" (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [LDraw FAQ] What is the parts voting procedure?
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Subject: What is the parts voting procedure? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-14 Location: /lugnet/cad/ldraw/cr...t/cad/dev/ Comment: Unedited cut from the LDraw FAQ. <P> Part voting is democratic and is (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Jeremy: (...) If an answer is located in two places, we will also need two copies in the _processed_ version of the FAQ, not in the raw data (of cause). (...) Yes. Do you have a better solution (preferably not one that involves too much work). Play (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [LDraw FAQ] What are the MIME types for LDraw and MPD files?
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Jeremy: (...) /lugnet/cad/ldraw/ for the introductory and general questions (maybe also /lugnet/cad/). /lugnet/cad/ldraw/using/ for questions on the use of LDraw (maybe also /lugnet/cad/). /lugnet/cad/ for questions related to other tools. (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Ah...no. We need to be able to solve this without using duplicate files. Plus, this action would break if the FAQ were slurped into one big file. Urg. Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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Jeremy: (...) Good you caught it. There is more of the same. Can we assume that when we have a raw FAQ entry file named "some_entry.en.faq" with the location header Location: /category/group/,/other/group2/ the FAQ web site will contain files named (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [LDraw FAQ] How does one map a bitmap onto a LDraw object?
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Subject: How does one map a bitmap onto a LDraw object? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 1 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-14 Location: /cad/dev/,/cad/ldraw...ing_parts/ Comment: Unedited cut from the LDraw FAQ. <P> Use BMP2LDRAW, BMP2DAT (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Linking between FAQ items (Was: [LDraw FAQ] Who wrote LDraw?)
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(...) Whoops. This won't work in the current FAQ format, but we need its capability. Suggestions? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [LDraw FAQ] What is the .DAT file format?
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Subject: What is the .DAT file format? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 1 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-14 Location: /cad/dev/,/cad/ldraw...le_format/ Comment: Unedited cut from the LDraw FAQ. <P> .DAT files are text (yes, you can edit (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [LDraw FAQ] What are the MIME types for LDraw and MPD files?
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(...) Thanks, Jacob! :-, Do you want these in /lugnet/cad/ or /lugnet/cad/dev/org/ldraw/ ? Cheers, - jsproat (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [LDraw FAQ] How can I make ray-traced images of LDraw models?
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Subject: How can I make ray-traced images of LDraw models? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-14 Location: /cad/ldraw/other_tools/ Comment: Unedited cut from the LDraw FAQ. <P> There are two tools for (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | [LDraw FAQ] What is the colour code for ... ?
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Subject: What is the colour code for ... ? Content-Language: en Topic-Level: 0 Revision: Jacob Sparre Andersen, 1999-05-14 Location: /cad/ldraw/using/ Comment: Unedited cut from the LDraw FAQ. <P> The following list is based on the documentation for (...) (26 years ago, 14-May-99, to lugnet.faq)
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