Reformatting Gaffa archives

[toc@digitalk.com (Tim O'Connor)]

REGARDING                Reformatting Gaffa archives
people:

If the archives are to be reformatted I would like to suggest that they be
wrapped as a setext. As described in the setext concepts paper a setext

  "is a text which has been formatted in such a
  fashion that it contains clues as to the typographical and logical
  structure of its source (word-processed) document(s), if any.
  Those clues, which I call "typotags," facilitate later automatic
  detection of that structure so it can be validated and extracted/
  processed/ transformed/ enhanced as needed, if needed.

  It follows that setexts, being nothing but pure text (albeit with
  a special layout), are eminently readable using ANY editor or
  word processor in existence today or tommorrow, and not only on
  the Macintosh either.  ANY computer, any computer program that is
  capable of opening and reading text files can be used for reading
  setexts."

Some of the formatting clues are sections and text style. Readers exist (at
least for the mac) which make setext documents a joy to read.

For more information send email with the single word "setext" (no quotes) in
the Subject: line to <fileserver@tidbits.com>. A file will be returned
promptly.

just a thought,
to'c

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