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- | Generally speaking, | + | ====== Instructions ====== |
- | * Page headers | + | ===== Introduction ===== |
- | * Advertisements should be removed altogether | + | All of the magazines on the site have been run through an optical character recognition (OCR) tool, which converts |
- | * Images should be removed altogether (along with any text directly relating to that image) | + | |
- | * People’s names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg Ian Wolf should be Ian Wolfe | + | |
- | * Place names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg Wollangambe, | + | |
- | * If a place name has a more recent, or common alternative name, add it in brackets eg Wallara Canyon %%[Dione Dell]%% | + | |
- | * Note also that place names by convention do not have apostrophes eg Coxs River, not Cox’s River – if you find these, please correct them | + | |
- | * Fix general spelling errors where noted | + | |
- | * Punctuation may be corrected, but this is often a matter | + | |
- | * Separators such as %%********%% or %%=========%% should be removed | + | |
- | If you would also like to format the resulting text, use the following conventions. Note that recent newsletters may have a fair bit of formatting, so some of these conventions may be difficult to follow: | + | {{ocr_html.png? |
- | * Use bold in place of underlined/ | + | |
- | * Use Heading 2 for story titles, and Heading 3 for subtitles | + | **Don' |
- | * Use a table for the index, and any other text requiring aligned columns | + | |
+ | If you click the **Edit this page** button, you'll see some text that looks something like this: | ||
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+ | A bit more readable, but still in need of some work. Time to get going! | ||
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+ | ===== Text corrections ===== | ||
+ | Generally speaking, the aim is to get the text content exactly the same as in the PDF. [[# | ||
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+ | This is the next paragraph</ | ||
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+ | While in general the content should be the same as the PDF, the following changes should be made: | ||
+ | * Page headers and footers should be removed eg < | ||
+ | * Advertisements should be removed altogether | ||
+ | * Images should be removed altogether (along with any text directly relating to that image). However, if that image is particularly important, such as a map relating to a walk, you can leave a note on the [[magazines|tracking page]] that it should be included. | ||
+ | * People’s names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg **Ian Wolf** should be **Ian Wolfe** | ||
+ | * Place names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg **Wollangambe**, | ||
+ | * If a place name has a more recent, or common alternative name, add it in brackets eg Wallara Canyon [Dione Dell] | ||
+ | * Note also that place names by convention do not have apostrophes eg **Coxs River**, not **Cox’s River** – if you find these, please correct them | ||
+ | * Fix general spelling errors where noted | ||
+ | * Punctuation and grammar may be corrected, but this is often a matter of taste, so only correct where it is clearly wrong | ||
+ | * Separators such as %%********%% or %%========%% should be removed | ||
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+ | ===== Text formatting ===== | ||
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+ | The number one priority is to get the text corrected. However, it will certainly help us if you can spend a bit of extra time to get it into a more readable format. | ||
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+ | As mentioned above, the most important thing is the **paragraph** - leave a blank line to automatically create one. | ||
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+ | If you would also like to format the resulting text, please | ||
+ | * Use [[wiki: | ||
+ | * Use Heading 2 (%%===== Heading 2 =====%%) | ||
+ | * Use a [[wiki: | ||
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+ | Avoid using the forced line break (\\) except where needed eg poems. | ||
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+ | ===== Example ===== | ||
+ | For an example of a largely complete magazine, see [[199201|January 1992]]. If you click on **Edit this page** (you need to be logged in), you can also see examples of all of the formatting. | ||
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+ | ===== I made a mistake... ===== | ||
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+ | If you make a mistake while editing, and you haven' | ||
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+ | If you accidentally save a mistake, you can revert to an old version by using the **Old revisions** button. | ||
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+ | ===== There' | ||
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+ | If you find a problem with the PDF - missing pages, pages the wrong way round, unreadable pages etc - send me an email at < | ||
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+ | ===== Tracking Page ===== | ||
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+ | If you are working on a particular magazine, please update the [[magazines|tracking page]]. You can add an entry like **In progress (Tom)** or **Complete (Tom)** to let others know that you are working on, or have finished a magazine. Only use **Complete** when you have entirely finished, including formatting. | ||
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+ | ===== Ready to go! ===== | ||
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+ | When you are ready to start editing, see the list of [[magazines]]! | ||
+ | Thanks for helping out! |
instructions.txt · Last modified: 2020/04/18 20:49 by sbw