Time for an FAQ

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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert J. Brown <rj@eli.wariat.org>
To: higher-fire@prairienet.org <higher-fire@prairienet.org>
Cc: andy@edi.paimail.com <andy@edi.paimail.com>; higher-fire@prairienet.org
<higher-fire@prairienet.org>
Date: Monday, July 14, 1997 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: Time for an FAQ



>>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Masoner <richardm@cd.com> writes:
>
>    Richard> Andy wrote:
>If the FAQ is written in LaTeX, then it will produce excellent
>hardcopy, as well as convert via latex2html to make a good web doc.
>
>Perhaps an even better choice would be to write it in infotex, since
>that also typesets thru TeX, and will convert via info2html, but it
>also produces Gnu hypertext docs for browsing with the "info" browser,
>which is also integrated into emacs.
>
>You could also write it in Word and use rtf2html, but I have less
>experience with that route, as I generally abhor anything proprietary
>for public stuff, especially anything MicroSoft(TM).

Better yet, write it in POD format and you can convert to LaTeX, HTML and MAN
formats.

Plus, POD is quite a bit easier to learn than infotex or LaTeX.

Brad

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