Re: FAQ: rec.arts.sf.composition (incomplete)

Zeborah <zeborah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

R.L. <"<see-sig"@no-spams.coms> wrote:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:26:19 +1200, Zeborah wrote:

rec.arts.sf.composition Frequently Asked Questions

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Would it be a lot of work to flag the parts of this that are new or
recently changed?

Good idea. I won't be able to do it retrospectively because I can't
remember, but for future changes I'll try and come up with something.

Is it on a web-page somewhere? (I'm sure someone posted a URL, but
I can't remember if that was to a news post or a web site.)

If so, I suggest when you post to rasfc, you start with the URL of
the web-page. Something like: "This FAQ can be found at ..."

This is particularly useful if the webbed version
is prettier for any reason, although that's usually a lot of extra
work and probably not worth it, depending how you're maintaining it.
But it's also nicer for other reasons (IMHO) to bookmark a webpage
that may be updated, than to bookmark an article posted to a
newsgroup, which may be superseded by a later posting.

One way to handle changes is to have an appendix (to the FAQ) which
just lists the changes -- but that's twice as much work as merely
making the changes. If you have an easy way to colour the text,
you can colour it all black, then make changes in red. (Then the
next time you edit it, you start by marking it all black again.)

Again, this is easy to see on a web page -- and it doesn't matter
if it's all black in the version posted to rasfc, if you also have
a URL to a web page.

There must be an easy way to convert a web-page to plain text
for posting (even if it is just copy'n'paste from the web page
to a plain text editor -- notepad on a PC. Textedit on a Mac? Or
is that too clever, and preserves formatting?)

Please don't feel I'm nagging you to do extra work -- I'm fully
aware how much time is already required just editing the document.
My ideas are just FAQ-noodling, in case anything appeals enough
to seem worth the extra effort :-).

Jonathan
.

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