FWN on Fedora Insight: roll up meeting

[Pascal Calarco]

A good question, Adam.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

  - pascal

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On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 16:16 -0400, Pascal Calarco wrote:
> Beat writers are going to write up their beats differently in Fedora 
> Insight than they do now on the wiki.  This will take a bit of
> getting 
> used to as any change does, but once the editor is in place, it
> should 
> be roughly equivalent in the amount of work, if I have to guesstimate 
> from this vantage point. 

OK, then my potential problem still stands, if we're still intending to
produce a plain-text version.

Consider this little snippet that might be in an FWN:

----
Interested readers can visit the page<ref>http://www.somepage.com</ref>
for more information.

<references/>
----

That works fine in both the HTML and plain text versions. You wind up
with:

----
Interested readers can visit the page[1] for more information.

[1] - http://www.somepage.com
----

Now, imagine we're writing in HTML with no MediaWiki stuff available,
using the suggested method of just going with <a href> tags. The obvious
way to write that same line is like this:

----
Interested readers can visit <a href="http://www.somepage.com">the
page</a> for more information.
----

That in-line reference renders fine to HTML, obviously. But how do you
programmatically turn it into readable plain text? In this particular
example's case, you could probably automatically extract the link and
shove it underneath the text and it'd be OK, because the text's so short
and any link associated with it can really only be read one way. But if
you have a longer paragraph with several in-line <a href=> links like
that, how do you reliably render a plain-text version of that same text,
with the links intact, which will make it clear to the reader which bit
of text each link should be associated with?

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Adam Williamson
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