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(...) Couldn't these theoretical tools be a little smarter? (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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Okay, I've got a little more on the BLOCKQUOTE issue now. I had to load the entire newsgroup on my local machine and use my special MIRA tools to search it in order to figure this out. Here are the only non-Robert-Munafo FAQ answers that use (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Accidental to you maybe, but it was no accident to me. I left space on either side of anchor text to make it more readable. I did that because right now everyone is limited to reading raw FAQ entries. (...) Yes. If the formatting and (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) Ahh, but it wasn't at all a smartass question. :-) Rather, it was 110% serious, tossed out as food for thought. There actually are things that fit the bill above. --Todd (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) 1. there is accidental space around the 'foo' in <a href="xxx"> foo </a> which will cause the links to display improperly. Really it should say <a href="xxx">foo</a> for proper links. 2. All of the URLs are written out twice. Is that really (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Good read (Was: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?])
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(...) Okay, I've been reading aout numbers for a half hour now. Very interesting reading, at least for a geek such as I. :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) I _know_ there's a good smartass answer to this comment somewhere, but I can't think of it. Very tragic. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Well, if you look at my FAQ submissions (and you'll have to save them as files and open in a web browser to see the formatting) you'll see that I put BLOCKQUOTE and P around all my URLs to make them stand out. Here are a couple examples of (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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(...) It's interesting you said that. For my own purposes (and this is unrelated to LUGNET) I've developed a few simple ASCII tags that I use in my web page source files. My web pages (on (URL) ) are all typed in as plain ASCII text files. I use a (...) (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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