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Better instructions for typing in logbook entries

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Philip Sargent
2018-07-17 11:59:48 +02:00
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@@ -11,7 +11,23 @@ the base camp logbook or the top camp logbook. All these logbook entries are the
which is then synchronised the version control system.
<h3>Where the logbook file is kept</h3>
<p>Logbooks are typed up and put under the [expoweb]/years/nnnn/ directory as 'logbook.html'.</p>
<p>If you are using the <em>expo laptop</em> just edit this file:
<pre>
/home/expoweb/years/2018/logbook.html
</pre>
and other people will take care of synchronising it with the version control system.
<p>
<b>DO NOT</b> take a copy of the logbook.html file from the expo laptop,
copy it by email or USB stick to another laptop, edit it there and then copy it back. That will
<em>delete other people's work</em>.
<p>If you are using your own laptop then you will need to
<a href="update.htm#manual">install and learn how to use</a> the version control software.
And you will need to synchronise regularly (every day) to
ensure that the updates from all the people entering trip data are OK and don't get overwritten by ignorant use of this software.
<p>Logbooks are typed up and kept in the [expoweb]/years/[nnnn]/ directory as 'logbook.html'.</p>
<h3>Format of the online logbooks</a></h3>
@@ -23,9 +39,12 @@ which is then synchronised the version control system.
&lt;div class="triptitle"&gt;Top Camp - Setting up 76 bivi&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="timeug"&gt;T/U 10 mins&lt;/div&gt;
</pre>
<p>Note that the ID's must be unique, so are generated from 't' plus the trip date plus a,b,c etc when there is more than one trip on a day.</p>
<p>Note that the ID's must be unique, so are generated from 't' plus the trip date plus a,b,c etc.
when there is more than one trip on a day.</p>
<p>T/U stands for "Time Underground" in hours <em>or</em> minutes.
<hr>
<hr />
<h3>Historical logbooks</h3>
<p>Older logbooks (prior to 2007) were stored as logbook.txt with just a bit of consistent markup to allow troggle parsing.</p>
<p>The formatting was largely freeform, with a bit of markup ('===' around header, bars separating date, <place> - <description>, and who) which allows the troggle import script to read it correctly. The underlines show who wrote the entry. There is also a format for time-underground info so it can be automagically tabulated.</p>
@@ -39,8 +58,11 @@ which is then synchronised the version control system.
T/U: Jess 1 hr, Emma 0.5 hr
</pre>
<p>
<hr />
<ul id="links">
<li><a href="index.htm">Expedition Handbook</a>
</ul>
</body>
</html>