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- > I agree that it would be useful to have a mono-spaced litteral
- > text format which would still accept tags other than the closing
- > tag. Because tags, especially if
- > automatically generated, can easily produce very long lines
- > unless they are broken up, it might be useful for
- > thiat format to have explicit new lines. (The paragraph
- > mark <P> could be used, with hte convention that it
- > represents only a new line). Like you, I have come
- > across the need for it mainly in converted information.
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- > It would be very easy to put in the browsers.
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- ok, I'll look into that; any thoughts on a name for this format ?
- "PREFORMATTED" ?
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- > By the way, have you seen the Gnu Info convertion
- > which Philippe Defert does, on http://asis01.cern.ch:80/info/ ?
- > He uses a perl script. Would you both like to publish
- > your scripts? They would be useful examples for anyone
- > writing converters, and people might wantto set up their
- > own Gnu Info servers too.
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- Yes, I've seen this script. My own script is also in perl but
- performs a more complete conversion. For example, each Info
- 'node' has previous/next references and embedded in the text
- can be references to other documents. Also, my script is explicitly
- designed to perform the conversion for a single topic when the user
- wants to read this topic. This means that there's no need to store
- the converted document and that the data is always up to date.
- The disadvantage of this approach is that the scripts has to been
- every time a request is made.
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- The scripts and the modifications I made to the HTTP daemon are
- now available via anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.few.eur.nl in the
- /pub/www directory, files Daemon4.0.patch, info2html and man2html.
- Or try http://kaa.cs.few.eur.nl/hypertext/filters/filters.html.
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- I'm on holiday next week so problems/flames/praise will have to
- wait until I'm back.
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- Eelco van Asperen. | Erasmus University Rotterdam
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