Intro, regarding Perl
It's perl program :-) Perl is language that runs in all platforms
(Win95/98 WinNt, Unix, VMS). t2html.pl code is GPL as all my Procmail,
Emacs and Perl tools.
Perl can already convert text written in POD text format to html:
POD --> .man
--> .html
--> .txt
--> .ps
...
Why not Perl POD was used
But, I would have found it very hard to write 500k FAQ with POD, expecially
because I change/rearrange large chunks every day. So, I chose to write
plain text and convert it to html with t2html.pls. The advantage is that I
also have Emacs (which also runs in every platform) minor mode (minor
mode=think WP or Word in this case) to format the faq and renumber the
headings, make bullets etc. straight into text version. So the conversion
tree goes now
.txt --> .html --> .ps
--> .rtf
--> .man
FAQ formats
FAQ's are usually posted in plaintext and i have seen zillions of
diffrently formatted faqs. The specification I laid out I named as
'Technical format'
This post is intentionally formatted according to TF spec, so that
readers get the idea: Nothing magic with TF. It's like your every day
document format that you use daily at work or University.
jari
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