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FAQMAN! The FAQ outline renderer

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This fat web page contains the faqman script object. Use the 'Get Page Data' command from the Scripts menu to copy faqman into your object database. Also available: info about fat pages and the Terms under which you can use this script.

Q2: What does it do?

Q3: Who's idea was this?

Q4: Why doesn't it do what I want it to do?

Q5: Why is it called FAQMAN?

Q6: Is there anything else I should know about FAQMAN?

Q7: Is there a screen shot or something?

Q8: Don't you have better things to do than write sample code?

Q1: What is faqman?

Faqman is an outline renderer for Frontier.

Q2: What does it do?

It takes an outline, and assumes that all of the outline summits are questions, and that anything indented beneath those questions is the answer. It then formats them in HTML in a generic FAQ-like format.

Q3: Who's idea was this?

Michael Holtzman (holtzman@stjohns.edu) asked about this on the Frontier-Users list this morning (Mon, Jan 25, 1999)

Q4: Why doesn't it do what I want it to do?

It's sample code. You should modify it to taste.

Q5: Why is it called FAQMAN?

It's shorter than faqrenderer.

Q6: Is there anything else I should know about FAQMAN?

It ignores empty summits, as well as commented summits.

Q7: Is there a screen shot or something?

Q8: Don't you have better things to do than write sample code?

Apparently not...

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