SBW Magazine & History Project

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===== Text corrections =====
Generally speaking, the aim is to get the text content exactly the same as in the PDF. [[#text_formatting|Formatting]] is of secondary importance. The fundamental formatting tool is the paragraph, which is two line breaks (ie one blank line) - a single line break is not enough.

While in general the content should be the same as the PDF, the following changes should be made:
  * Page headers and footers should be removed eg <code>January 1992           The Sydney Bushwalker       Page 5</code>
  * Advertisements should be removed altogether
  * Images should be removed altogether (along with any text directly relating to that image)
  * People’s names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg **Ian Wolf** should be **Ian Wolfe**
  * Place names should be corrected, if you know they are incorrect eg **Wollangambe**, not **Wallangambe** or **Wollangambie**
  * If a place name has a more recent, or common alternative name, add it in brackets eg Wallara Canyon %%[Dione Dell]%%
  * Note also that place names by convention do not have apostrophes eg **Coxs River**, not **Cox’s River** – if you find these, please correct them
  * Fix general spelling errors where noted
  * Punctuation and grammar may be corrected, but this is often a matter of taste, so only correct where it is clearly wrong
  * Separators such as %%********%% or %%=========%% should be removed

===== Text formatting =====

The number one priority is to get the text corrected. However, it will certainly help to get it into a more readable format.

As mentioned above, the most important thing is the paragraph - leave a blank line to automatically create one.

If you would also like to format the resulting text, please use the following conventions where possible. Note that recent newsletters may have a fair bit of formatting, so some of these conventions may be difficult to follow:
  * Use [[wiki:syntax#basic_text_formatting|bold]] (%%**bold**%%) in place of underlined/capitalised text, except in story titles, in which case...
  * Use Heading 2 (%%===== Heading 2 =====%%) for story titles, and Heading 3 (%%==== Heading 3 ====%%) for subtitles. Use proper case, even if the original was capitalised, unless absolutely needed.
  * Use a [[wiki:syntax#tables|table]] for the index, and any other text requiring aligned columns


===== Example =====
	
For an example of a largely complete magazine, see [[199201|January 1992]]. If you click on "Edit this page", you can see examples of all of the formatting.

===== Ready to go! =====

When you are ready to start editing, see the list of [[magazines]]!