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Subject:	Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.faq
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 1999 15:07:55 GMT
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Robert Munafo: > > 2. All of the URLs are written out twice. Is that really necessary? > > Yes. If the formatting and unformatting tools are written, > they will strip out HTML tags when generating the plain-text > FAQ. In order for the URL to be in the plain-text FAQ it has > to appear as plain text. The HTML-to-text converter already exists (lynx -dump), and it inserts footnote-like[1] references in the text, so there isn't a serious need for repeating URL's as plain text. Play well, Jacob ------------------------------------------------ -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:http://www.ldraw.org/FAQ/> -- ------------------------------------------------

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		Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
(...) Wow, that's great! That's actually the perfect thing to do. Somehow I was led to believe someone was writing all the LUGNET tools themselves and that everything inside angle brackets would be invisible. So, let's see -- that means I can (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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		Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 15-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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