h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Tom!

I believe you will be editing my article on "Inertial Frames". I have spotted a few things that need changing, which I have changed in the original, but not in the recommended version (obviously).

1. The first line in the section "Newton's Laws of Motion" should read "... are embodied in a set ..." (the "a" is missing).

2. The last line under "Defining Uniform Motion" should read "So, as long as the laboratory (our frame of reference) is either moving at the same speed in a straight line, or is stationary, the experiment ..."

3. I have changed the link to the common cold site by using HTML tags in the footnote, and using the reference GuideML tags to give the site a proper title in the box.

Let me know if all (particularly 3) is OK!


Jules

Hi, Jules! Thanks for letting me know, such comments beforehand are always appreciated!

I will let you know by posting to this discussion as soon as I have edited it!

Tom

Hi, Jules! After huuuuuuge amounts of time (according to my frame of reference ) I have edited your entry. It's a great one!

All of your suggested changes were perfectly OK with me. I am not sure about the in-house policy when it comes to linking, but I submitted it with a comment, and hopefully it'll come through OK.

See you! And sorry about the delay.

Hi Tom!

Great to hear from you again - I was only getting *slightly* worried! I'll have a good look through it soon, but there is just one point, which may be the one you're referring to above, which is the "Common Cold" site doesn't appear in the "Referenced Sites" section - it needs a "" tag in the entry.

I look forward to reviewing the entry, and I'll let you know if there's anything else I find.

Jules

Just read it - seems perfectly fine to me (aside from the link thing mentioned earlier).

I look forward to it appearing in my "Edited Entries" section!


Jules

Glad you liked it, Jules! Especially since I hardly had to make any changes apart from those you pointed out.

About the thing: I completely forgot! But here's what I'll do: I'll point Chris, one of the in-house editors, in the direction of this entry. Then he'll fix it. That's what usually happens, anyway. Subeds mess up the entries, then we start crying for Chris, and he fixes everything.

Now if you don't mind, I'll go out in the garden and attach my newly purchased subway car to my rocket launcher. I have an experiment to make. I stuffed my dog into the subway car, and supplied her with a mobile phone and a map. (Did not want her to have my GPS!) Pretty soon the car, with the dog inside of it will be in orbit in a galaxy far, far away.

Tom

Hi folks,

I fixed up that commoncold reference link. It even works!

Wow! Chris the magician!

Now that site seems like a place where you could catch a virus...

Tom

I hope you supplied her with a copy of the article too! Do you have a cat, by the way, and if so, was he/she instrumental in the design of this experiment?

Hi Tom,

It still needs the "" tag in the footnote changing to an "" HTML tag, so it doesn't appear twice in the reference box. Could you also change the title in the reference to "The Common Cold" rather than "www."? I know it's picky, but I would like it to be like that if possible...


Jules

Hi Jules,

We only use GuideML in Edited Entries, so we can't use ... for external links. Any use of ... automatically puts a link in the Referenced Sites area of the Entry, so the text it uses for the link is that which you put between the ... tags, I'm afraid.

You'll either have to re-work the FOOTNOTE to read something like "yadda yadda - see commoncold." or you'll have to make do with the link being called 'a cold'.

A future release will enable you to have certain links kept out of the References Sites area as you suggest, but until then, these are the only solutions available. Sorry about that - we're working on it, though.

Let me know what you want to do and I'll fix it up. Tom has finished his subbing and has returned that Entry to us, so it can only be further edited in-house now...

Oh, OK. As long as it's the best it can be with the way things are, that's fine by me.

As a suggestion though, it would be great if the "LINK" tag accepted a name property which is used by the References section, so, as an example, my link could read something like:

a cold

I'm sure it could be done, it would just be a question of how easily!

We have something planned very much along those lines. The only problem with your suggestion is that XML doesn't allow spaces inside attribute values, so we'll have to find some other way of doing it. There are much more experienced people working on it, though, or so I'm told...