diff --git a/handbook/logbooks.html b/handbook/logbooks.html index 55c088b27..f39e5e0a3 100644 --- a/handbook/logbooks.html +++ b/handbook/logbooks.html @@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ or email it to a nerd. This will save someone (probably you) deciphering your handwriting and typing it up later. Scanning is not good enough yet to read handwriting or to interpret which scribble relates to which sketch.

Type the text, but still do lots of drawings in the paper logbook. +

If you are typing more than a single paragraph, type it up in another app first, and copy and paste the text into the online form. After you have transferred and updated the text, check that it has actually all appeared in the logbook: log report and that the date and people are correct. +

Adding the sketches

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During and after expo, the logbook is scanned and photographed (and the images stored permanently in e.g. /expofiles/writeups/2024/ ). +

Extracting the sketches and topos from the scanned whole pages is a fiddly job. If you have the paper logbook to hand, it is easier for phone-centric people to selectively re-photograph just the sketch and edit it on your phone. +

Unlike the Cave Description editor, we do not yet (in 2024) have a simple online system for adding images into the online page. +

Upload the photos of the sketches, renamed with the filename including the date, e.g. 2024-07-23_topo359.jpg, using the Upload Photos form into the "LogbookImages" folder. +

If you know HTML, then you can create a link to that file directly. Otherwise a nerd will do it over winter 2024/25. +

The online logbook file

The contents of both the paper topcamp logbook (if it exists) and the basecamp paper logbook are typed into the same