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

You appear to be have been given somewhat confusing advice in your PR thread re GuideML, I don't want to risk upsetting things by posting there.

Although learning GuideML is helpful for PR Entries, it's not vital. Finished, suitable Entries can be picked and accepted without any GuideML.

The GuideML Clinic is not newbie friendly, which is why the majority of Aces don't use it. However, well meaning Scouts and PR reviewers offer that link without knowing this.

If you want help with learning GuideML for your Entry, give me a shout, and I'll be happy to step you through it. It looks complicated, but is really easy once you get the hang of it.

Not sure if I mentioned this in my Ace Welcome - you can tell when soneone is online by the eyes next to their name. Though sometimes they can remain for up 15 minutes after they have signed off.

Emmily

Emmily,

You're a fountain of information.

I'm bubbling over with gratitude!

AV

Thanks

Do you want help with GuideML?

I'll tell you the basics

The most used tag is the Paragraph tag

is an opening paragraph tag, and is a closing paragraph tag.

You put a at the beginning of every paragraph and a at the end of every paragraph.

The Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism's sacred scripture written between the Fifth and Second Centuries B.C., develops on the great battlefield of Kurukshetra where the Divine Avatar, Krishna, meets His disciple, Arjuna amidst the terrible slaughter of a war of epic proportions.

Krishna is both teacher and friend to His distressed disciple Arjuna, who has to first come to grips with the stark realities of life and death, God as Creator and Destroyer, before he can receive the wisdom of His teaching and come to understand the larger picture of the meaning of life and man's place in the Cosmic scheme of things.

Throughout this sacred text, Lord Krishna, as charioteer, informs Arjuna, who is the fighter in the chariot, of His relation as the Self in the heart of all beingsThe Bhagavad Gita (X:20). Though He has descended as the Avatar and taken human form, He is the Eternal Self not bound by the modes of nature. "Deluded by these threefold modes of nature (gunas), this whole world does not recognize Me who am above them and imperishable." 2

and so on till the end.

Then footnotes - The Bhagavad Gita (X:20) that is your footnote 1 which needs to be inserted between the end of "beings" and the fullstop.

and are as said the thread.

Then you need to change from Plain text, the default to GuideML.

Scroll down a little past the bottom of the text window, you'll see

o Plain Text o GuideML 'Change Style'

Click in the o GuideML and click 'Change Style'

New tags will appear at the top and bottom of your Entry.



You text



Click 'Preview' it should be okay. if not let me know I can be online for another 10-15 mins tonight, have to go to bed soon.

Emmily

I'll be online again tomorrow evening (Monday), if you try the above while I'm offline, and there's a fault, don't click 'Update' click 'My Space' the Entry will remain as it was.

Emmily

Sorry, just realised something. In your footnotes you use "double quotes" which is part of the GuideML language, as they'll be betwen the tags it will try to read between them, you'll need to change the "double quotes" for 'single quotes'

Emmily

Emmily
I only just found out that these are called angled brackets
Sounds fishy to me
You're a Dear
Really

The tags only work in GuideML, I can show you had to do the fancy links in conversations, such as <./>Askh2g2</.>

Emmily