From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-10-01T11:54:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21853] Re: FAQ indexer offerred for ruby faq

Phil Mitchell <phil.$DELETEmitchell@pobox.com> writes:

> As a newbie project, I wrote a faq indexer, to add a section of
> links at the front of the ruby faq. I think it is nice to have an
> overview of all the faqs in the faq. Feed it your rubyfaqall.html
> file and it will add a links section to it.

That's great. In fact, I currently generate the FAW from SGML (a
mistake, I admit) so I can probably get the index to be generated as
part of the process if people want.

To be honest, I'm kind of thinking of something of a reorganization of
the FAQ: it's too hard to add stuff. I'm not too keen on Faq-o-matic:
does anyone know of any other good FAQ systems out there. I'd like to
be able to represent the FAQ as HTML/XML, PDF, and Postscript as a
minimum. I'd like to be able to have lists of pending questions, and a
system which allows folks to submit answers. It needs to be searchable
and indexed, with a decent hierarchy as well.

Any ideas?


Dave