From: mortel@chose.cam.org (Stephane Lussier)
Newsgroups: alt.galactic-guide
Subject: Just Ideas & Stuff - part 1 of 4 : INTRO
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Date: 4 Sep 92 17:34:23 EST
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         COLLECTION OF PROPOSALS
                             FOR  Writing Guide for Entries    and unknown
                                  For Publication in                 v
                                  The HitchHiker's Guide to the Known Galaxy

  with an additionnal free gift:  NEW GUIDE ENHANCEMENTS

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                             P A R T   O N E




                                  %t Title
 If you look on your right,       %n identification number
 you can see the Entry Format     %s summary
 as of 3-19-92.                   %a author
                                  %d date (in yyyymmdd format)
 Since about a week, ideas        %x xrefs (unlimited number)
 spew around UsenetSpace          %i index (unlimited number)
 concerning the matter.           %e Entry beginning
                                  This is a sample entry.
 This is a preview of The         %e Entry end.
 Guide that could be.

 Since everything below came out of only two or three minds, there are flaws,
 missing ideas, & unfinished propositions.  Please do fill in the blanks with
 your imagination.  Just post a follow-up article to > alt.galactic-guide <
 or, if you prefer some feedback before your personnal thoughts go public, you
 can write to me at > mortel@chose.cam.org < in french or english (not german!)


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 NOTHING IN THIS FILE IS OFFICIAL AND A PROPERLY FORMATTED WRITING GUIDE
 WILL BE POSTED ON THIS GROUP AS SOON AS WE DECIDE ON THE FINAL(?) FORMAT
 FOR WRITING ARTICLES.  ONCE AGAIN, NOTHING IS OFFICIAL.  JUST TELL US (ie:
 the whole world) WHAT YOU THINK OF ALL THIS AND CAST AWAY YOUR IDEAS
 BEFORE OLD AGE INADVERTANTLY WIPES THEM OUT OF YOUR PERSONAL MEMORY UNIT.


 Oh!  Before you read further, the following has been approved by Steve
 Baker (swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu_, The (IBM) Guide!'s programmer.
 So changes might not be so dramatic  after all... except maybe for the
 temporary UNIX reader...


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Here's a summary of what you will find in the following posts concerning
the new guide's proposals:

 0. COPYRIGHTS



 1. SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE FIELDS

  1.1 Writing Text
  1.2 Additionnal Fields
      -footnotes
      -updates
      -glossary

 2. ADDITIONNAL FEATURES

  2.1 Biographical Datas
  2.2 Editors Whatabouts
  2.3 The Guide's Hypefiles


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                        of coming attractions


We have now these following fields for the entry:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 %t  title        ( one 80 character line title)
 %n  ID number    ( FORMAT: editor number ++ reality index ++ article number )
 %s  summary      ( text section -- usually 4 lines or less )
 %c  comments     ( another short text section )
 %a  author(s)    ( one author name per line in the First Middle Last fashion )
 %d  date         ( FORMAT: YYYYMMDD )
 %x  xrefs        ( one title per line )
 %i  index        ( one index per line )
 %u  updates      ( one already existing entry title per line )
 %e  entry        ( text section )
 %f  footnotes    ( footnote text section )
 %g  glossary     ( FORMAT: <new word>: (<type of word>) <definition><newline> )
 %.  END marker


We also have the biographical data file containing these fields:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 %n  name of field researcher   ( one 80 characters line )
 %a  email address              ( one 80 characters line )
 %l  location                   ( one 80 characters line per sub-field )
 --subfields: street address [put a blank line if inexistant or confidential]
              city           [ " ]
              state/province [ " ]
              country        [ " ]
              zip code       [ " ]
              phone number   [ " ]
 %b  biography                  ( text section usually written in 3rd person )
 %c  comments                   ( text section written by the field researcher )
 %.  END mark


And here is the editors whatabouts file:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 %n  name of editor             ( one 80 characters line )
 %c  editor's code              ( hexadecimal number/first part of an ID number)
 %a  email address              ( one 80 characters line )
 %l  location                   ( one 80 characters line per sub-field )
 --subfields: street address [put a blank line if inexistant or confidential]
              city           [ " ]
              state/province [ " ]
              country        [ " ]
              zip code       [ " ]
              phone number   [ " ]
 %r  registration date          ( YYYYMMDD format )
 %d  end of contract date       ( YYYYMMDD format )
 %c  comments                   ( text section )
 %.  END mark


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                         To be continued...


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