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

I tried to write a Guide entry to describe the maneuvers commonly found in an aerobics class. Almost immediately I got a review comment saying, "These descriptions are hard to visualize." And the reviewer was right.

So, I invented a text-based notation to chart the maneuvers. For an example:

AA======

is two feet facing forward, next to a step.

====<=

is two feet on a step.

I got the notation to work in HTML. But GuideML gets confused on the "<" character.

So, I hereby refer the interested reader to [URL removed by moderator], which contains my full list of maneuvers, complete with notation.

In case the previous line says "URL removed by moderator"... follow the link from this page.

Hi,

just a note about using special characters in GML.
You can insert a < or > by coding them so...

&lt;

&gt;

I used them quite a bit in my entry (shamelessly plugs an entry that's getting no attention in PR) http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A652547

Awu

Thanks; I'll look into that. But using codes that represent one character by using three, will make the notation really hard to maintain, so I'm not likely to port the article into GuideML at this point.

Actually, it's four . The semicolon is part of the syntax.


& l t ; Less than
& g t ; Greater than.

You can even use the decimal equiv. of a character. But you're right, it's tedious to maintain.