[ZWeb] FYI: Next step on news
sidnei@x3ng.com
sidnei@x3ng.com
Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:20:36 -0200
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:07:03PM +0100, Paul Everitt wrote:
>
> Howdy. I promised a rough draft this morning of the news. However,
> Chris sent me a writeup that Carlos had done. It's better than what I
> did and I'd like to use it.
>
> However, Carlos did his as HTML. On the plus side, he did a very good
> job of providing useful links. On the minus side, it won't make for a
> very useful email.
>
> One solution is to convert it to STX. However, the heavy linking that
> he did would make it a real pain to read as text (just like it would be
> a pleasure to read as HTML). "Imagine":http://www.imagine.com/ a
> "paragraph":http://www.paragraph.com/some/link.html with a "whole
> freaking bunch of
> links":http://www.links.com/whole/freaking/bunch/of/links.html in it.
> :^)
>
> Any thoughts on this? Perhaps we could use the little-used
> reference/footnote syntax in stx?
>
> Or we could simply do it as HTML and let the email just summarize the
> text.
I prefer the reference/footnote syntax. Debian Weekly News its beeng using
this for years[1], so most people are already used to it :)
[1] http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/news/2002/11/msg00001.html
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