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Date:      Mon, 12 May 1997 11:31:58 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Jim Dutton <jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu>
To:        freebsd-doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: Re: comp.mail.sendmail Frequently Asked Questions (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199705121632.LAA06781@dutton4.it.siu.edu>

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I am trying to help someone expand their FAQ capabilities similar to
what y'all do. What do you use to generate your HTML docs and non-HTML
docs? Thanks.

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    From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
 Subject: Re: comp.mail.sendmail Frequently Asked Questions (fwd)
    Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 22:55:32 CST
      To: jimd@dutton4.it.siu.edu

On May 10, Brad Knowles wrote:

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At 10:27 PM -0400 4/27/1997, Jim Dutton wrote:
>I would like to ask that plus/minus signs or asterisks be used in the index to
>denote new or changed items it would make the FAQ vastly more useful as then I
>don't have to spend a lot of time rereading every "issue", just to find out
>what has changed. Thanks.

        If I did anything with the current format, I'd do it with context diffs.

        However, I'm going to be doing a complete change of the FAQ when
I "port" it over to using SGML-Tools (probably version 0.99.10 or
later), so that the web page and text version can be generated from
the same SGML source.  At that point, since it will get regenerated
each time, I don't know whether even context diffs would be able to
help.


        If you can suggest a tool along the lines of SGML-Tools (where I
could maintain one canonical source, and have that generate either
HTML or text, with modifications to the actual output as appropriate
for those formats), but which would also include some ability to
retain a notion of what's "changed" since the last version, I'm all
ears.

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Brad Knowles,                                  MIME/PGP: brad@his.com
    comp.mail.sendmail FAQ Maintainer     <http://www.his.com/~brad/>;
        finger brad@his.com for my PGP Public Keys and Geek Code
The comp.mail.sendmail FAQ is at <http://www.his.com/~brad/sendmail/>;




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