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(...) I'd like to see Latin-1 as the raw data format, with conversions to the presentation formats of: (a) HTML for webpages and (b) Latin-1/ASCII for text documents (i.e. news postings). (...) Is this a choice between (a) 7-bit ASCII with HTML (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Yes & no. 'Yes' in that a master TOC would/could appear. But 'no' in that the master TOC would just be a special case of a general-purpose sub- hierarchy TOC, which just happens to start at the top. I built one of these just for fun a couple (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Working sketch of FAQ item data format
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(...) OK, I grok that better, yes. But why was that file referring to (or including) itself, and why were the other files including files in parent directories rather than subdirectories? For definitions? (I guess you answered this below...) (...) (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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(...) Tags at the beginning and end of the file? That just makes processing more difficult, not easier. More syntax = more work. Less syntax = less work. I'm looking for a model with a simple but flexible design -- where individual collections Q&A (...) (25 years ago, 25-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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(...) Sounds mostly good. Catch my exceptions down below. (...) Or some other tool; but I agree, a well-defined subset of HTML can and should be used. (...) (Please keep in mind Jacob, that these are nits I'm picking. :-) "Newsgroups" would be more (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) You mean like a master Table of Contents? Sure, okay. Question" How cautious do we want to get about creeping featuritis? :-, (...) Yep. (...) Oh, yeah. Integers are better for an enumerated value. (...) If you want to write the code for it, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: Working sketch of FAQ item data format
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(...) Would "Include" be better? (...) Sure, it looks like you're able to efficiently distinguish between a ng and a non-ng directory. (...) The top line looks good. I doubt we'd need the time-of-day stamp very often, if at all. Would it be possible (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Raw FAQ data format (Was: Format of FAQ items)
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Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com) and Sproaticus (jsproat@geocities.com) writes lots of stuff: Guys! It sounds like you are mixing the raw data format and the presentation format. I'll try to stick to the raw data format here, and list the ideas I (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: I'll volunteer for the LEGO FAQ
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(...) I don't think so. We should rather choose a separator for category levels: Category: [category] / [subcategory depth 1] / ... (...) Makes sense. (...) Lets use HTML. We can always use "lynx -dump" to generate plain text from the HTML edition. (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) What does the Refer header mean? Say, due to what we figured out on the other thread, we can nix the Locations and Newsgroups headers, and just keep the Subject and Author headers. But doesn't the date belong on the same line is the author?... (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) What about an outline format? I made a cool little utility that displays, in outline format, any sub-tree of the global ng tree...so from any category sub-homepage you can see what's there beneath it -- especially handy for things like loc (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQ data format possibilities
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(...) I like index.* over title.* too. (...) The funny thing to me is the strange and unpredictable sequence that things have been unfolding in. It's not that it's got a life of its own which is not under any of our control to choose the sequencing, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) Let me expand on this. It all depends on how it's converted into readable form. A one-file FAQ would certainly slurp everything in. An HTML conversion might take just the question titles to put up on the first page. Or maybe just the section's (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) It's the repeated, frustrated sound you make when you open a Town Jr. set. It indicates a state of sticker shock. :-, Actually, "ob" is an abbreviation of "obligatory". Among other things, it's an old Usenet trick to insert an on-topic remark (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQ data format possibilities
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(...) Please see my comment regarding an index file title.en.faq : (URL) actual name of the file is unimportant.) You could then have title.fr.faq , title.es.faq , etc. (I think I now prefer "index" over "title" in the filename.) (...) It's funny (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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What does the 'ob' mean? Thanks! John (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Re: FAQ data format possibilities
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(...) I've got a mechanism for this for the ng names so that, for example, "sf" is displayed as "San Francisco" -- but it isn't internationalized yet. Not sure how to handle subcategory names in the FAQ for virtual subcategories that don't yet (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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| | Working sketch of FAQ item data format
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(Originally in another thread. I gave it its own thread to make finding it and building upon it easier.) Here's a working sketch of the FAQ data format; in quasi-XML, to separate the files. <FILE NAME="file: /faq/lugnet/market/a...1.en.faq"> Refer: (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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(...) You've convinced me otherwise now. Mea culpa. :-, (...) I think it would take in the whole sub-FAQ. This is (currently) my strategy for giving localized names to the different categories. Someone looking for starter questions could probably (...) (25 years ago, 23-Apr-99, to lugnet.faq)
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