South African Histories

[rlh3]

I have access to a number of volumes of the South African Histories, most notably, Salute the Sappers by Neil Orpen. Is this still needed for the site?

rlh3

[clancey]

S.African history are most welcome. They, like many of the Commonwealth histories, are
quite rare (and expensive!) You may fire when ready...

[rlh3]

Several things...

How do you want them? I have volume one of Salute the Sappers scanned as a PDF, ready to go, but I am in the process of OCRing it to a .docx file. any formatting conventions that I should know about?
I own the entire commercial series (all but The Sidi Rezegh Battles, Crisis in the Desert, and War in the Southern Oceans.) Do you have any priority to these of just as I can get to them?

Also do you have an HTML template for the site? I know nothing of writing HTML, but would like to take the opportunity to learn. On that subject, any recommendation for an easy and cheap HTML editor?

rlh3

[OpanaPointer]

Several things...

How do you want them? I have volume one of Salute the Sappers scanned as a PDF, ready to go, but I am in the process of OCRing it to a .docx file. any formatting conventions that I should know about?
I own the entire commercial series (all but The Sidi Rezegh Battles, Crisis in the Desert, and War in the Southern Oceans.) Do you have any priority to these of just as I can get to them?

Also do you have an HTML template for the site? I know nothing of writing HTML, but would like to take the opportunity to learn. On that subject, any recommendation for an easy and cheap HTML editor?

rlh3

Patrick will fill you in, I'm sure, but a note here to say that looking at the documents on Hyperwar should give you a good idea of what we do to the documents as far as formatting them. One thing you'll notice is that we put the page numbers in between double hyphens. For example, '--45--, for ease of search for a page number.

[rlh3]

Patrick will fill you in, I'm sure, but a note here to say that looking at the documents on Hyperwar should give you a good idea of what we do to the documents as far as formatting them. One thing you'll notice is that we put the page numbers in between double hyphens. For example, '--45--, for ease of search for a page number.

What I am asking about is an HTML template, the graphics, fonts and colors and all of that stuff.
A listing of conventions, such as the page number format you mentioned, would be helpful, as it would give me a checklist to use before sending material in to the site.

[OpanaPointer]

Patrick will fill you in, I'm sure, but a note here to say that looking at the documents on Hyperwar should give you a good idea of what we do to the documents as far as formatting them. One thing you'll notice is that we put the page numbers in between double hyphens. For example, '--45--, for ease of search for a page number.

What I am asking about is an HTML template, the graphics, fonts and colors and all of that stuff.
A listing of conventions, such as the page number format you mentioned, would be helpful, as it would give me a checklist to use before sending material in to the site.

Ah, I usually leave the "prettying up" to Patrick. Having one person do that guarantees a higher degree of consistency. I just get them cleaned-up and ready to have the "Hyperwar specific" things, like the banner, added. If you want to know the exact codes Patrick uses you can use "View Page Source" (or whatever in your favorite browser) to see how we do something.

[gustavgg]

IM LOOKING FOR NEIL ORPEN SOUTH AFRICA IN WW2
DO YOU KNOW WHEN CAN DONWLOAD A COPY?
THE HYPERWAR LINKS ARE DEAD,PLS HELP

Best Regards
Gustavo Buenos Aires Argentina

[clancey]

"East African and Abyssinian Campaigns" is being processed right now. I expect to be able to
upload a couple of chapters a day...
Patrick

[gustavgg]

Ok Patrick good news
i hope to upload the Abbysianian Campaign and later if possible the Italian Campaign too

best regards
Gustavo