SBW Magazine & History Project

Generally speaking, the aim is to get the text content exactly the same as in the PDF. However, the following changes should be made:

• Page headers and footers should be removed eg

  January 1992           The Sydney Bushwalker       Page 5

• Advertisements should be removed altogether
• 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, not Wallangambe or Wollangambie
• 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 of taste, so only correct where it is clearly wrong
• Separators such as ******** or ========= should be removed

The number one priority is to get the text corrected. However, it will certainly help to get it into a more readable format.

If you would also like to format the resulting text, please use the following conventions where possible. Note that recent newsletters may have a fair bit of formatting, so some of these conventions may be difficult to follow:

• Use bold in place of underlined/capitalised text, except in story titles, in which case…
• Use Heading 2 for story titles, and Heading 3 for subtitles (no capitals unless absolutely needed)
• Use a table for the index, and any other text requiring aligned columns

For an example of a largely complete magazine, see January 1992

When you are ready to start editing, see the list of magazines!