[HP4GU-FAQ] HTML-ising

[Paul M. Kippes]

At 06:34 AM 2/18/2001 +0000, Neil wrote:
>Paul, thanks for doing all that work... and on a Saturday night!

I volunteered to do some of this conversion stuff a loooong time ago, and 
was feeling neglectful of obligations.  Plus, Monday is a holiday in the 
U.S.  Yippee!

>(a) Note that several of these FAQs are drafts requiring proofreading.

Good point.  I just wanted to see what kind of work the Word-->HTML 
conversion would require.  I was able to automate a good portion of the 
process.  The only manual process is error checking, heading format 
changes, adding cross links.  Depending on the number of intra-FAQ cross 
links, I think I have it down to 20 minutes or so (based on the Hermione 
Granger FAQ).

As a side note, if Steve or someone else follows my method of using the 
PIPER Tool Kit (see earlier message for the link), the HTML output of the 
PIPER program was slightly modified.  I wrote a sed script to strip out 
Font and Superscript tags.  It also changes the footnotes to brackets from 
that crazy "fn 1" junk.  In other words, there is no need to do this kind 
of repetition by hand.  (I didn't like the dates being superscripted since 
line spacing was non-constant.)

>(b) Before 'dressing' any of the files, it's worth checking with
>Steve VA, if you haven't already, on how he plans to present these,
>since they will be located on the Lexicon site.  I'm sorry if I'm
>stating the obvious; I would just hate you both to spend time doing
>the same tasks!

True.  I took it up to that point.  Especially since I didn't get the sense 
that decisions were finalized.

I'll hold off on converting.  Perhaps I'll pass the time by reading the FAQs!

Paul