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Re: Temporary outage of FAQ work
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lugnet.faq
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Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:04:34 GMT
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At 01:55 PM 7/13/99 , Robert Munafo wrote:
> Okay, I have to take some of this back now. I have actually found some FAQs in
> this newsgroup that were posted before I jumped in and started stirring things
> up -- the LDraw FAQs. I had ignored them because I had already read the LDraw
> FAQ on http://www.ldraw.org and I was mainly looking for FAQs about LUGNET.
> (and MindStorms) And now that you've auto-posted everything I no longer have
> anything to whine about (-:
Ummm - I would like to have a general idea on the direction of the LDraw
FAQ and how it will eventually be formatted to appear like the rest of the
ldraw.org site. Is there any set plans on this?
> I appreciate all this now. But I was really surprised people spent so much
> effort on design and planning at the expense of actually producing content.
> It's kind of like spending all your time acquiring and sorting LEGO pieces and
> no time actually building models. (-: We've all been there, haven't we?)
Heh - yep :) I have some sorted buckets of Legos but myself haven't built
very many original models from them. And yes - the planning....we're still
discussing off and on the structure of the OMR for ldraw.org and producing
few models to fill it up. But its necessary so it will all fall into place
in the future.
-Tim <><
http://www.zacktron.com
AIM: timcourtne
ICQ: 23951114
If someone tells you you're worth your weight in gold, fatten up.
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| (...) Jacob Sparre Anderson is in charge of the LDraw FAQ, so I won't speak for him. As for the appearance: In theory, the FAQizing scripts would be able to format the HTML in any way you want. ...How handy are you with Perl? :-, Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
| | | Re: Temporary outage of FAQ work
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| (...) I think I remember us discussing something about the formatting a while ago, but it fizzled. (...) 100% Perl illiterate :( -Tim <>< (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 If someone tells you you're worth your weight in gold, fatten up. (25 years ago, 13-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| (...) I'm not sure that I should post the HTML to the newsgroup; the HTML I generate is around 300 KB. And, it would look pretty ugly, reading an HTML document in a news reader. I've run it through Lynx; the resulting text is around 240 KB. And, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)
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