frontiersman: An Introduction A retired man, married 43 years, with two married sons and two grandchildren, Matthew aged 2 and Elizabeth, born on 28/7/05.I read a great deal, usually factual material like autobiography. Also the Sunday Telegraph, Prospect magazine and Scientific American. I like to write, but not professionally and never published. We are lovers of mainstream classical music as a family. My wife and I walk as much as we can, given the time! She is a watercolourist and works at our local Infirmary as a W.R.V.S. volunteer on consultant's clinic. An honours graduate in the social sciences: social and educational psychology and business administration with economics, I also hold a Mensa certificate. I completed a creative writing course with the Open College of the Arts about 8 years ago and also attended the creative writing courses at our local technical college in recent years. Some years ago I took a course at college to become a tutor in 'special needs'. I passed the advanced driving test with the Institute of Advanced Motorists in August 2002, and also the European Computer Driving Licence in the July of that year. I am a member of the Constitutional Monarchy Association,UK. Working in accountancy with a large multinational throughout my life, I took early retirement in 1990 due to a long term medical problem. The h2g2 Editors granted me the honour of displaying that pretty purple plate that appears in my Personal Place that you see to your right, making me an UnderGuide Miner on 11/08/05. I hope they don't come to regret it! (He! He!) Gives a 'Muttley'- like snigger...Playfully! God Bless all my two readers + Phred! (Not forgetting my other five friends and those who, though not posted here, speak to me regularly and are no less important to me!) A special mention to recognize my fellow h2g2 UnderGuide Officials and those of the Edited Guide who have helped me in my various endeavours. f. People have been talking about this Guide Entry. Here are the most recent Conversations: Journal Entries Welcome to this Researcher's Journal. If you'd like to comment on anything they have written here, just click the relevant 'Discuss this Entry' button. frontiersman: email problems; cannot post outward mail (Jan 12, 2006)To all h2g2 'officials', I am at present attempting to reconnect with my email provider to sort out a posting problem; I can still receive though, so can keep up with what is happening at the P&S! Sincere apologies, frontiersman.  Click here to discuss this (2 replies, Latest reply: Jan 12, 2006) Links: courtesy of Elentari & The Snockerty Friddle: Many thanks to you, both! (Oct 10, 2005) This entry is intended as an aid to creating and formatting your entries and/or your user space without having to learn Guide ML, although once you've used it a few times you'll probably get the hang of it anyway However If you are simply trying to liven up your user page then you are free to format your text as you wish, add colours, pictures and smileys and even make them move about. However if you are creating an entry with a view to inclusion in the Edited Guide then you should read about "Using Approved Guide ML in Edited Guide Entries" as some of these options are not allowed in such entries. How to View the Code that Makes an Entry Start by opening the same page in a second window and arrange them so that you can see both or can switch easily between the two. In the address bar of this page, delete the A (but leave the number and all the rest unchanged) and replace it with the word TEST. It should then appear like this http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/TEST986691 space space (Alternatively you could copy and paste 1 this into your address bar) This will work with entries but to look at or pinch the code from a user page you have to change the U to 'testuserpage' Now the page will change and you will see, in addition to the text of the entry, the code, or the Guide ML used to make the page appear as it should. If you compare the "code view" with the "normal view" you should be able to see which bits are code and therefore invisible in the normal view of the page because they all appear between angle brackets <LIKE THESE>and are known as "Tags". You cannot edit the code yet but you can either cut and paste the whole page into a new entry, changing the text and headers etc for your own and deleting the unwanted parts, or just copy the individual bits of code you want to use in your entry. Further on in this entry there are examples of the kinds of things you can do in your entries, complete with code, so that you can cut and paste the ones you want. Each individual piece is separated by a few lines of white space. This has been done for convenience only and will not affect the final appearance of the page. Begin Using Guide ML For a new guide entry or to edit your User Page see Converting from Plain Text to GuideML On the entry editing page you should now have a box with nothing in it except for this:- <GUIDE> <BODY> </BODY> </GUIDE> which represents the beginning and end of the entry and everything you want to include goes in between. Type something, anywhere in the space between <BODY> and </BODY> Notice the subtle but very important difference between the two and then press "Preview"2, you will see your typing appear above the editing box. This is how the entry will appear if you do no further formatting. But if that was what you wanted, you wouldn't be reading this would you? Now cut and paste this into the editing box <B>space space </B> and type something here,<B> and here,</B> and here. The first tag <B> makes the text that follows it bold, until it is followed by the second </B> , the closing tag. If you copy any code from one page to another you must include both tags. Do the same thing again with this <I>space space </I> and type something here,<I> and here,</I> and here. The first tag <I> makes the text that follows it italic, until it is followed by the second </I> which changes it back to normal You could, if you wish, use both italics and bold type but NOTE The order of the tags is important. This <B><I> bold italic</I></B> will work, as will <I><B>italic bold</B></I> But this <I><B>a mixture of both</I></B> WILL NOT WORK Paragraphs and Quotes You can use <P> and </P> to create paragraphs and </BR> will insert a line break, whereas a paragraph inserted between <BLOCKQUOTE> and </BLOCKQUOTE> will appear indented like the opening paragraphs of this entry, which can make quotes stand out as can <PULLQUOTE> and </PULLQUOTE> "which will do this to the text in between them" while <PULLQUOTE EMBED = "RIGHT"> and </PULLQUOTE> "will do the same but will also put the quote over to the right" Formatting Fonts Digibox users may not be able to use different fonts Fonts Size THIS TEXT IS SIZE 2 and this is how it appears in code form <FONT SIZE ="2" >THIS TEXT IS SIZE 2</FONT> Cut and paste that into your new entry and try changing the size by substituting the 2 with another number THIS TEXT IS SIZE 2 THIS TEXT IS SIZE 4 THIS TEXT IS SIZE 6 THIS TEXT IS SIZE 8 In all four versions of the sentence the only difference is the number "2", "4", "6" and "8" in the code. Changing Fonts In the same way, you can copy this line <FONT FACE ="TIMES NEW ROMAN" > Type some text here </FONT> and change the name of the font to get the following Type some text here Type some text here Type some text here or even Type some text here You can combine the two like this THIS IS COMIC SANS MS SIZE 6 and if you feel a little more adventurous THIS IS COMIC SANS MS SIZE 6 Which, in code form appears as <FONT FACE ="COMIC SANS MS" SIZE = "6" COLOR = "RED"> THIS IS COMIC SANS MS SIZE 6 </FONT> Note the American spelling of COLOR THIS TEXT IS RED THIS TEXT IS GREEN THIS TEXT IS BLUE Instead of writing "RED", "GREEN" or "BLUE" you can if you wish, use the hexadecimal representations of the numbers "#FF0000", "#00FF00", and "#0000FF" respectively. More about colours and hexidecimals can be found here thief Web-Safe Colours: How They Work More about Colours You Can Add Pictures (Also Known as Blobs)Too Dont Panic This piece, copied into an entry or your user page will give you the "Dont Panic" picture, or "Blob" <PICTURE blob="B779940" ALT="Dont Panic"/> and this will put it in the middle <PICTURE embed="Center" blob="B779940" ALT="Dont Panic"/> and guess where this one puts it <PICTURE embed="Right" blob="B779940" ALT="Dont Panic"/> All you need to do to change the picture is to use a different "B number". The ALT = " ******** " bit is the text that will appear when you hold the cursor over the picture, you can change that too. Find lots of pictures to use here thief Blobs And You Can add Smileys <SMILEY TYPE="smiley"/> Will give you this smiley and <SMILEY TYPE="ale"/><SMILEY TYPE="ale"/><SMILEY TYPE="ale"/> Will give you this ale ale ale Which can be no bad thing. Find a list of the smileys available here thief h2g2 Smileys And You Can Even Make Them Move <MARQUEE DIRECTION="RIGHT"><SMILEY TYPE="surfer"/></MARQUEE> surfer Backwards and Forwards <MARQUEE BEHAVIOR ="ALTERNATE"><SMILEY TYPE="ufo"/></MARQUEE> ufo Lists If you want to include a list copy this into a page <UL> <LI>List Item 1</LI> <LI>List Item 2</LI> <LI>List Item 3</LI> <LI>List Item 4</LI> <LI>List Item 5</LI> </UL> and you will get something very much like this * List Item 1 * List Item 2 * List Item 3 * List Item 4 * List Item 5 <UL></UL> creates an Unordered List, and you'll need one of these <LI>item</LI> in between them for each item on your list. If you change the <UL> and </UL> to <OL> and </OL> you will create the same list but this time each item is numbered, like this 1. Numbered Item 2. Numbered Item 3. Numbered Item 4. Numbered Item 5. Numbered Item 6. Numbered Item 7. Numbered Item 8. Numbered Item Footnotes Footnotes are easy to add and they are automatically numbered. <FOOTNOTE>Whatever you type here will appear at the bottom of your entry</FOOTNOTE> <FOOTNOTE>So will this</FOOTNOTE> Links <LINK H2G2="U155909"/> Will appear as h2g2 Smileys and <LINK H2G2="A155909"/> H2G2 Smileys Will look like this h2g2 Smileys H2G2 Smileys Some Links to Useful Pages * Blobs Blobs * More blobs More Blobs * h2g2 Picture Library H2G2 Picture Library * Art Community Art Library * Using Approved GuideML in the Edited Guide Using Approved Guide ML in Edited Guide Entries * Guide ML Clinic Guide ML Clinic funnily enough * h2g2 Smileys H2G2 Smileys, tons of them * Web-Safe Colours: How They Work Web-Safe Colours   Click here to discuss this (3 replies, Latest reply: Jul 13, 2006) Membership of 'Collective' and 'WW2' established. (Oct 1, 2005) Must look at these sites occasionally! Click here to discuss this (12 replies, Latest reply: Oct 16, 2005) Most Recent Conversations
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