HTML if you're going to refer us to URLs

HTML if you're going to refer us to URLs

Posted Jul 18, 2003 0:57 UTC (Fri) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
In reply to: Graphics programs for Linux by gargamel
Parent article: Graphics programs for Linux

It's a petty nitpick, I know, but if we're going to put URLs in our responses, let's choose HTML and wrap then in anchor tags.

Just to throw in two further names. For those interested in EPS and quite a few other formats, and especially for all users of LaTeX, TGIF is an excellent choice. Regarding Xfig: It's apparently not actively developed, but there is an successor in the making, called figurine.

http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif/
http://figurine.sourceforge.net/

It would be nice if Quixote had an option to link to MoinMoin's text parser, so people familiar with it's flavor of Wiki markup could write nicely formatted comments using without having to fuss with HTML tags directly. (I'd like to see MoinMoin split off their markup support in a meaningful way --- so snippets of text would be passed through it into HTML within other applications and utilities.

BTW I hate HTML table syntax. However the Wiki and Moin ways of doing tables are simple and flexible enough that I use them to generate my HTML templates when I need to create tables for any other purpose.

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