Neville FAQ (and other items)

P Kippes kippesp at swbell.net
Mon Apr 2 06:58:04 UTC 2001


> Mike: "I also posted it in HTML (generated by Frontpage). Is that
> OK or should I have left it in Word form?"

Simon also commented on this.  Here's my bit.  As long as the Word 
format is a 97-compatible format it can be read by Word 2000 (or on 
the Mac, I think it is Word 98 and Word 2001) and I think, Word 95.  
I've had trouble reading Mac originating files, but I think that was 
caused by the binhex compression.  So, HTML or .doc should be okay 
with all.  (I tested converting some of the most complex FAQs, such 
as the Hermione Granger FAQ, and got it down to a relative piece-of-
cake.  So that's the author's call, IMO.)

I may have the version years messed up.  I think the main difficulty 
was for the Word 95 users.  And for that version, a converter to run 
on IBM compatibles is in the file section.  A similar converter can 
be obtained for the Mac version.  I'm (again) not sure of the year 
version.

As far as multiple formats.  Let's keep it to a single format.  It 
will make it easier on the author and the converter.  Should a 
problem occur, let's just solve it at that time.

Question to those listening:  Who are the converters?  I'm assuming 
that I'm one.  Steve is quiet, but I think is one.  Any others?






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