On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> Ok, but it's a lot of work to translate articles.
It's less work than writing...
> So, English is ok, but Dutch is too.
So, if I would send my article in English only, you won't complain?
> If an author wants that his articles are read by more people, he can
> write in English,
I don't think this is a good idea. The English part would be half a
magazine. I think you should send a signal that you take non-Dutch readers
seriously and make everything available in English.
> but if he really can't write English, for heaven's sake, let
> him write in Dutch! For quality and lot-of-work reasons: don't write in
> English if it's extremely bad!
The author doesn't necessarily have to be the one who writes the English
translation. I would be willing to translate a few articles from Dutch
to English. Not too many articles, but if more people offer their services,
one or two translations per person would be enough.
> > Here is an idea for the magazine:
> > Make a kind of "online discussion" about an article possible. For example,
> > after a game review you can tell why you do or don't agree with the
> > judgement of the reviewer. Or after a programming course, you can ask
> > questions or present even better solutions.
>
> That's something we can implement later. It's not of primary importance. First
> we need articles. And fast! :-)
Of course, first things first. But maybe you can let different people work
on articles and on webtech, so they are working in parallel?
> > I want to include URLs in the article. Should I place them inside the text,
> > or as a list of references at the end of the article?
>
> I think we'd better make a list of references as in the magazine C'T. You can
> make a reference like this [1].
>
> [1] This is an example of reference number one!
Just like scientific articles...
You can hyperlink the "1" in the text to the reference below the text. Very
convenient. Example in HTML:
===
(article body)
...blah, look in the FAQ [<A HREF="#ref1">1</A>] for details, blah...
...
References:
<DL>
<DT><A NAME="ref1">[1]</A>
<DD>The Ultimate MSX FAQ.<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.faq.msxnet.org/">http://www.faq.msxnet.org/</A>
</DL>
===
Actually, since you can link to references, you don't need to use numbers
anymore. You could simply replace the "1" above by "FAQ".
> We may change this. If we have made some decisions about the layout, I'll
> write guidelines for authors to match our layout as well as possible.
Well, if you ask authors to send plain text, doesn't that imply they
shouldn't layout?
Anyway, I think it's best to let the MCCW team do the layout. That will
guarantee that all articles use the same layout.
You could make some guidelines for images. Which formats do you accept and
how large can they be? What color will the background be?
Hey, maybe you can make a deal with FutureDisk or XSW so they can spread
the articles of MCCW to MSXers without web access?
Bye,
Maarten
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