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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 18:31:25 GMT
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In lugnet.faq, Jacob Sparre Andersen writes: > 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. 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 rewrite the FAQ answers I submitted to make the URL links have labels, link "DACTA home page". That just leaves the issue of readability. For now I'd like to leave the URL links set apart in their own paragraphs because people still have to read these things in raw format, and it really screws up a well written paragraph to have HTML tags in the middle. So, this is mainly directed to Jeremy I guess: should I do any editing of the links and resubmit? - Robert Munafo

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		Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
(...) Nah. Don't worry about it. I'm taking the position that individual FAQ items written or edited by an individual might as well carry some of that individual's stylistic techniques -- "stylistic techniques" to me means things like writing style, (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

		Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
(...) Actually, we were doing just that. We were ready to come out in the open with our stealth ASCII technology, but then the USAF needed some of it to bomb someone, and we couldn't talk about it for at least until the media stopped getting (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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		Re: Usable HTML tags (Was: 202 FAQ items posted to lugnet.faq)
Robert Munafo: (...) 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: (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.faq)

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