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

Your mention in your criticism of my 'Pagan Christmas' piece of the need for sections hit me hard since I am ignorant of how to do it while other use these things all the time.

HELP...

Next, so much of what passs for Christianity is just worldly stuff and frankly many people need to be confronted about what it really means to be Christian (which doesn't mean they have to give up Christmas as long as they understand the roots it comes from). Yes I consider myself a Christian a very passionate christian along the line of Mel Gibson without the Aramaic.

People can step out of their Christian cocoon long enough to have some fun with the pagans, it wont hurt them at all. They might learn a thing or two.

Well, I'm not a Christian - not religious at all, in fact - but I can help you with GuideML. I'm sorry if I seemed to be attacking you in the PR thread; that's an occasional failing of mine when the Scout mindset really gets going!

First, when you go to edit your entry, change the 'view' from Plain Text to GuideML. Then put at the beginning of every paragraph and at the end. Put at the beginning of every header and at the end. If you're using the brunel skin (the one that's green and black and has a row of links on the side) you can use the buttons above the edit entry field to enter some GML. And, if you need more assistance, you can go to the <./>GuideML-Clinic</.>, which is very straightforward and helpful.

You don't need to use GML if you don't want to, though. For headers, just stick the text in capital letters and we'll know what you mean. Entries get picked without any GML in them at all - it just looks nicer and will be put in eventually, so you may as well save your Sub-editor some work.

Being a Christian is hard work and not everyone is suited to it. Dont ever let anyone convince you otherwise. There are those who will tell you it is a piece of cake, forget it, that is not true for 99% of real people. Which is my motivation for so much of what I do, clarify and simplify, throw out the BS, and get down to essentials.

AS to Guide ML that is valuable to me here and now and I will go right ahead and use the information you provided, thanks.

I think that's one of the reasons why I've never really "done" religion - it seems too much like work!

The rewards for the work though are so profound that I find it is far more worthwhile than anything else I do and not just 'eternally' but everyday.

By the way, when I worked on my guide entry last night I thought that I put headers in between the paragraphs and they just dont show up when I look at the essay what gives? Must I keep it in the Brunel instead of the classic goo?

After going through and editing it to what I thought was the proper spacing I look again and it is all mushed together without any spacing at all. What is happening to this piece??

That all looks exactly right to me, and in perfect consistency with House Style - except that you shouldn't have a header at the very start of an entry, which is just an h2g2 rule.

But other than that, the GML all looks fine.

When re-editing my personal space and after I hit the update button, nothing happened, no changes at all. I think that this may have happened to the guide entry also. Is there some explanation to this, do I need to hit the update twice?

That's very bizarre; I can't think why that would be. You could go over to <./>Feedback</.>, which I think would be an appropriate place to ask the question - I'm afraid my technical know-how isn't quite advanced enough to give you an answer.

I have gone back and redone my other guide entry A3891837 about John
Wycliffe but appearantly I have missed something could you check it out and tell me what needs to be done. Thanks my dear Ace

I don't know what exactly you mean you've missed. Are you referring to the GML? If so, you need to change the style to 'GuideML' instead of 'Plain Text' and put around the paragraphs.

You might want to alert the entry to the WW's attention by posting to the thread and saying you've made the changes.