Guide to formatting Nature Network posts
Maxine Clarke
Thursday, 26 June 2008 13:31 UTC
I wanted to make this entry a “noticeboard” as I think it is a great resource, but I don’t have permissions. Maybe if Martin or Anna reads this, they might consider making a noticeboard entry to link to this great blog post which is called “Textism, a better guide to formatting in Nature Network”. It is by Andrew Sun and describes, er, how to format in Nature Network postings.
Although this post was written last year, I was alerted to it by a comment at Andrew’s blog by Heather, so thanks, Heather.
Here’s some draft text for the noticeboard which can be copied and pasted if Martin or Anna reads this:
A guide to formatting for Nature Network can be found at Andrew Sun’s blog.
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What a great resource. Thank you very much for pointing it out, Maxine! I will make the entry into a notice.
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No problem. I found it through the search engine, so it’s not all bad!
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And thank you, both!
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Thank you for referring my post. It was Bronwen Dekker ’s idea. Thank Bronwen!
The background system of Nature Network seems to have altered a bit, so some of the formatting skills in that post is not working now. I will review that post again as soon as possible.
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Thanks, Andrew. There was a code release a few days ago. It might be an idea to check first with Li-Kim Lee that the changes you have seen are “real”, becuase there are one or two small bugs in the release which are being fixed.
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I haven’t posted much on NN for a long time, but I’m thinking of starting again.
I have a question that is not so much formatting as posting per se. I was looking for a scheduling tool, which allows a post to appear at some pre-determined date instead of immediately. This is something that other blogging tools (blogger, for example) make available.
More generally, is there a place that lays out how to blog on Nature Network?
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Hi Steve.
Nature Network was recently redesigned, so here is some information from Corie Lock, NN’s Editor about the new features.Scheduling posts is not possible at the moment, but a new platform planned for early in 2009 will allow this and many other features.
“How to blog” here is fairly intuitive, I have just had a quick look and cannot find a basic list of instructions, but if you go to your own blog there are some basics about how to post, etc, there.
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PS, I wrote the above reply assuming you already have a blog here, Steve. If you don’t, click on the “request a blog” button and the NN staff will explain the system. You will have to submit a sample post, etc.
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Thanks for the reply. I do have a blog, but haven’t posted much. I look forward to the new platform.
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