APAGear - Volume 5, Number 5 - August 2003

The House Organ

Words of Questionable Wisdom from the Distribution Manager

What do you know? We're on time this month! A hearty round of applause to everyone.

This month, we're testing out a template for submitting tactical scenarios. It's a plain old text template, not some unnecessarily complex web form to fill in. It should help authors to organize their tactical scenarios neatly and cleanly in a consistent fashion. To say that I didn't design it based on DP9's one-page tactical scenario layout would be to lie greatly. Hell, the template even includes DP9 markup code in it. Next month we'll maybe see a creature template and a vehicle template.

The important thing about these templates is that they wildly simplify my life, since I've got this nice little Perl-based translator I wrote that converts DP9 markup to HTML. I barely have to lift a finger to convert a document into HTML now.

Your Vaguely Humble Servant,

Chris

Christian Schaller

APAGear II Distribution Manager

Keeners!

Josh Peters is the Keener this month, and Janne Kemppi is the runner up.

New Member!

A big, hearty welcome to Dennis Johnson, the newest member of APAGear.