Wiki FAQ: sketch of new formatting

[John Hornbeck]

Please send things like this to the devel list with the [doc] tag in the
future.  I have forwarded this message there.
Thanks,
John Hornbeck

On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 18:59 -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/MartinManey has a snapshot of the FAQ page
> (with the top matter removed - that will need some rework too) in an
> alternate formatting.  I'm not really keen about using the h4 markup,
> but when I started this I thought I'd be keeping the existing h3 stuff,
> and wanted to have the questions subordinate to them...
> 
> I think I mucked up some formatting in a few complicated sections
> moving it back and forth to a real editor, but despite those oopses on
> my part I believe this format makes it easier to have non-simple
> strusture in the answers.  If no one thinks this is just a bad idea,
> I'll take a crack at redoing the real FAQ page in a day or two, if
> someone else doesn't think it's so much better they beat me to it.  :-)
> 
> You can get carried away with [[TableOfContents]], but it works very
> well for FAQs and some other things.
> 
> -- 
> A delicate balance is necessary between sticking with the things
> you know and can rely upon, and exploring things which have the
> potential to be better.  Assuming that either of these strategies
> is the one true way is silly.  -- Graydon Hoare
> 
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