Hi Allan and All, I just thought that I should point out that at the moment (and for the foreseeable future - its too big a change to even think about!) you can't create a file using WinBMD without an opening +PAGE - you would have to edit it out using Notepad after creation and once you did that WinBMD would fail to open it again (not a problem if you just want to upload it manually and forget about it). The next version of WinBMD (4.0) also checks for the closing +PAGE and if not found asks if it should insert it for you. Regards Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Raymond" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 2:15 PM Subject: Re: +PAGE Instruction - Temporary Web page > Hi John > > Thanks for pointing out anomalies between my page and that on the FreeBMD site. > > I was already aware of these plus I need to ensure that our "Transcribers > Knowledge Base" and "Hints and "Help For Beginners Guide" also speak from the > hymn sheet. > > We are not so much short of an Editor, but somebody who is experienced in CVS > (please don't ask, what's CVS?) to enable the changes to be made in a controlled > fashion. > > I think my colleagues at "Head Office" will concur that I keep badgering away to > ensure that the various documents are fit for purpose. However, whilst I can quite > happily amend the Web Pages I am not proficient in CVS and this is one of the > prerequisites of being able to amend the FreeBMD Web Pages. > > The easy part is the editorial side, the difficult part is the CVS side. > > Allan Raymond > [email protected] > http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Monarchies_of_Europe.htm > FreeBMD - putting birth marriages and deaths on the Internet > http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com/ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Slann" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: 29 October 2001 12:53 > Subject: +PAGE Instruction - Temporary Web page > > > Dear Allan, > > An erstwhile member of my syndicate has made a valuable contribution to the good > work you are doing here, but it widens the thing out he wrote to me as follows: > > "Dear John > > Here is an extract from the FreeBMD site > Start/End Of Page > This can only occur in a SEQUENCED or ONENAME dataset. The page referred to is > the page in the indexes rather than a page in the actual register. This data is > used to assist in collation of entries and to estimate completeness. It is > optional. > > +PAGE,PageNumber > > Insert one at the beginning/end of each page. The optional page number, if > present, should be the number of the page that follows. If it is at the end of the > dataset, it should be the page number of the following page anyway. If it is at > the end of a volume, it should be 1 greater than the highest page number. > > On the new +PAGE site twice it says that +PAGE was compulsory. The red bit > shows it wasn't. > > The blue bit states that both the first and last +PAGE should be n+1 > > Just trivial stuff but the new page is suggesting that we have been ignoring a > requirement. > > Cheers" > > I assume that someone will change this as well, otherwise all your good work will > come to nought. > > It does throw up a wider question though, the FreeBMD site continues to grow in > terms of content and while I guess someone at Head Office is supposed to keep a > eye on the content, isn't it time to recruit someone to act as editor so that > anomalies like this can be prevented as far as possible. We probably have someone > in one of the syndicates with the editorial skills to take on the task. > > Cheers > > John > > > > > > > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > ============================== > Ancestry.com--Your #1 Source for Family History Online--FREE for 14 Days > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1238 > >