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Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
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Thu, 15 Jul 1999 03:05:22 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, mattdm@mattdm.org (Matthew Miller) writes:

Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
Right, basically.  One thing we were talking about a while back was using
'lynx --dump' to convert the source data (which includes minimal HTML
markup) into ASCII for spitting out into the ng.

Good idea. The current 200+ messages aren't any fun to read.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were something other than HTML that was
actually readable as plaintext but which also looked great when converted to
HTML?

--Todd



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  Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
 
(...) 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)
  Re: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
 
(...) 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: [faq FAQ How do I format an entry in the Lugnet FAQ?]
 
(...) Good idea. The current 200+ messages aren't any fun to read. (25 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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