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- From: pcxkrm@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (K.R.Marshall)
- Subject: Re: Getting AmiGuide to work?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.165552.3741@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Organization: Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham
- References: <11440@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 16:55:52 GMT
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- In article <11440@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> aforrest@cs.strath.ac.uk (Andrew R Forrest CS92) writes:
- >So as not to waste bandwidth, here is a suggestion I also wish to post: The problem
- >of line lengths when the lines contain control characters has been discussed. May I
- >suggest that reader programs only recognise paragraphs and re-wrap the words
- >depending on font-size, etc. This would allow proportional fonts, as many
- >control-characters as you could wish for, graphics inserted in text... Also, some
- >form of Hypertext linking would be nice. It might be good to define control-character
- >"brackets" to put round text which would be a link to another article. (All we need
- >now is a conversion program to translate Guide articles to Amigaguide documents...).
- >Might I also suggest a graphics standard to be adopted. Just a thought. (Obviously,
- >being an Amiga-user, I would suggest IFF |-)
- >
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-
- I tried doing this for my version (the Atari guide), but most of the
- articles are formatted to some extent to use 80 column text, and they
- don't look right if you try to ignore the ends-of-lines. If we were
- going to do this we would need much stricter rules on text formatting,
- especially for lists.
-
- As for a graphics format, I guess GIF is slightly more appropriate,
- but I'm really not looking forward to dealing with them! - maybe we
- should just forget about graphics for the moment. (Not that I don't
- want to have to deal with them or anything!)
-
- Keith.
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