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Daniel Keep daniel.keep.lists at gmail.com
Sat Nov 18 21:16:28 PST 2006



Serg Kovrov wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> Blech.  No offense, but I hate web apps.  Dialup makes these things slow
>> as molasses to use.  I've made a website with Google Pages before, and
>> it was not a fun experience.
>>
>> *click a button*  *wait* ... ... ... ... *page loads*
>>
>> In an ideal world, I could edit in OOo or GVim and have the files
>> mirrored over FTP or somesuch.  I really aught to try that one of these
>> days...
> 
> I'm haven't used this google service before, but other people publish
> papers like yours this way. And if one do not have a wiki (I hate
> wiki's, btw) or other means to publish versioned documents - google docs
> seems best option.
> 
> Out of curiosity, I have created new document and pasted contents from
> open office. It takes me a about 10 seconds (OO was opened already) to
> have it online - http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dtqh79k_1rbxfmb
> 

Not bad, except that there's no spacing between paragraphs.  It also
destroyed indenting on all the code examples :3

In any case, I dumped out the text to a plain text file, and re-marked
it up in reStructuredText.  Generates almost exactly the same HTML
output, but now people can't complain they can't view it :P  I'll post
it up as soon as I've worked out if I'm going to include this "Q&A" section.

	-- Daniel

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