Re: [HACKERS] Re: [QUESTIONS] varchar vs text

>
> > I had a chance to look at the users and programmers manuals you just
> > installed. Very nice. Lots of new stuff and cleanup, and you
> > integrated much of the separate documentation in one place. I have
> > added a mention of it in my release summary.
> >
> > I can easily send you html of what I am doing. The FAQ is already html,
> > and the TODO list is ascii, but converted using txt2html from
> > http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~seth/txt2html/. Works really well. It
> > recoginizes certain text formatting styles, and outputs HTML to make it
> > look correct on a web page. Perhaps we could use that to convert over
> > some of the ASCII-only stuff we have.
>
> Yes, that would help, and then I can run a brute-force filter to convert the html to
> almost-DocBook sgml. From there on we can turn it around and generate html from the
> DocBook sources, for posting on the web page etc.

OK. I recommend you just grab the TODO and FAQ from the web site,
unless you want HTML versions of them in the distribution along with the
ASCII verions.

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