tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059928544991458287.post5271605573591743019..comments2016-06-21T09:11:26.528-07:00Comments on The Fabric Of Reality: Guiding the GuideDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03584119601642111254noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059928544991458287.post-17403319688436435132013-07-20T21:32:51.003-07:002013-07-20T21:32:51.003-07:00Thank you SO much, guys. You've basically both...Thank you SO much, guys. You've basically both picked the sort of direction I was leaning most towards anyway, which makes me more confident I'm doing the right thing. (And I somehow had no idea about internal hyperlinks, which is definitely going to help enormously.)Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584119601642111254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059928544991458287.post-72198353826612210992013-07-18T13:26:50.976-07:002013-07-18T13:26:50.976-07:00Challenge - 3 (Feels right for a guide to me, prov...Challenge - 3 (Feels right for a guide to me, providing a good compromise between printability and ease of use on screen)<br /><br />Reused Challenge - 1 (Cross referencing is a nightmare)<br /><br />Twist - As a variant of 2, I'd use different text formatting rather than different colour. Less garish, but should be easy to pick out while being chronologically correct<br /><br />Spoilers - 4 if you want to focus on the game and format, 5 if you want to focus on recapping the show itself. Many a show is dependent on things that would be spoilers for properly writing it up. As a compromise to the spoiler-phobic, maybe use option 1 until a couple of months after the season is over if that wouldn't be too much work for you, but probably simpler to just update at the end of seasons for that.<br /><br />Sorting - If you're doing with PDFs or HTML, you can do internal hyperlinks, which should mean you can do any of these options aside 6 without too much trouble to arange in a way that satisfies most preferences. I'd lean towards either Option 1 or 2 with a 'contents' table for both (Preferably side by side) or Option 5 with a contents page for alphabetical S1's and links to previous and later seasons in the same series (possibly just 'preceeded by' and 'followed by' to make updating easier). Option 6 is likely useful if you want a guide to anything that's ever been in the 'playbook' of a show, but not for general guide to shows. Option 4 feels like a messy hybrid of Option 1 and Option 2, and as someone who isn't American Option 3 never fails to annoy me. <br /><br />If you don't want to muck around with that sort of thing, and I really wouldn't blame you, then... Do you want to document seasons or format evolutions. If seasons go with Option 1, if format evolutions Option 5. And if you settle on Option 2, I'd seriously consider splitting entries if there's a significant gap between two seasons (e.g. Australian Mole S5 to S6)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7059928544991458287.post-40119600699467237092013-07-17T05:25:13.289-07:002013-07-17T05:25:13.289-07:00The best solution is probably "get a Wiki&quo...The best solution is probably "get a Wiki" then you would probably have a much easier time in trying things out, and certainly for cross-referencing.<br /><br />I think if you're aiming for encyclopedia rather than novel I go for option 3 for presentation. Presentation of used challenges is a toughie, I *think* I go for option 1 in the context of a document. For twists I think I go for option 3, with a caveat that you could probably have a side-entry for "series elements" for significant things like hidden immunity idols. Option 4 or 5 for spoilers, I usually treat spoiler whingers with short shrift and chances are if they're reading a challenge encyclopedia they've probably got a decent idea of what has happened anyway, maybe use impersonal names (Player A, Player B, etc.) as a sort of halfway house to indicate something happened but removing obvious signifiers? Good luck with settling on something for sorting.Brig Botherhttp://www.bothersbar.co.uknoreply@blogger.com