ZMMQ Editing Guide, by Ryan George & Henry Gurr

ZMMQ Editing Guide, by Ryan George & Henry Gurr

Introduction – Why read this document?

This document is meant to be used as a guiding light and disclosure of thought processes used in the creation of the pages here on this ZMMQ wiki WebSite. This Guide is intended for both those who make pages here and those who just read them, or even for those who may want to make their own pages on other sites based off the styles found here. In its own way this Guide is a Style Manual, with a purpose similar to The Style Manuals listed in this University of Illinois Library Guide to Style and Writing Guides . OR This Wikipedia List of style guides. With this in mind, this guide is intended for those who may not have any experience with the materials covered in it, and will be as basic as is possible while still giving the subject the coverage it deserves.

Editors, here especially, can be thought of as an extension of the writer’s mind, putting in time and effort they otherwise cannot. Here this is especially true, the editors here are supposed to learn the ideas and adapt to the thought processes presented on these pages. These thought processes are what we seek to replicate. An editor works using their own thoughts and processes to make these thoughts more clearly understood.

THINGS TO ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS DO WHEN EDITING

1) Make sure the settings on your document are correct
a. Have track changes on
b. Have autosave turned on, recommended to every 5 minutes or so
2) Save your work when you step away, perhaps to a new backup document.
3) Have your work in multiple places! Save both to a specific drive for editing, the computer you’re using for editing, maybe even a google drive account.
4) Before starting, check to see if a page is currently being edit worked on, by yourself or someone else! To do this check the status page, which can be found here.
5) And, of course, for any page on which you’re starting work, write your status into the link immediately above as well. check links that may be present in the page and make sure not only that they’re not only ALL working and link to the correct place, but also well as that they can be found by relevant context.
6) When Saving-As the document, be sure to set to MS Word 1997-2003.doc. This will make all files equally visible, in the Save-As Dialog Box.
7) When using pmWiki .'''. for bold three MSW Apostrophes will NOT work. Also you MUST be sure to use this .'''. in pairs of TWO or the Bold Will Not Show. If one end of the formatting is incorrect this will throw off the others. Therefore you must be very careful with how you use these, and any other apostrophe combos.
8) When editing a page not on the site, for example a document sent in an email, make sure the page and the document are the same! Usually, the best way to do this is by checking the version in the file name at the bottom - but often the version will not be updated. You should also check through the document to make sure of everything. If they don't match, use the posted version.
9) Just before you post the page, accept all changes in the document and double-check there are no spaces beginning a line. Do this AFTER you accept all changes, as they can hide between the changes!

10) Keep in mind when editing, or really when performing any constructive work, The Debtor’s Fallacy. To put it another way, remember that just because it too ka lot of time and effort doesn’t mean that something is worth investing more. Most often, people bring this up in relation to gambling – something along the lines of “I’ve already invested $3,000, I have to keep going or I’ll lose it all!” when really, all this will accomplish is yet more losses. Sometimes, a project must be brought to a halt, the slate wiped clean, and started fresh.
a) In this vein is a Frank Lloyd Wright statement “The architect’s two best friends are the eraser and the sledge hammer” meaning that sometimes things have to be destroyed to make new for something better. This must be done with caution, but there are many times it must be done.

Others?

General – Why this site may not use the same rules as other places, and things to keep in mind.

When undertaking any venture, from editing or creating the any pages on this website, to sending a colony mission to another world, the intent and nature of the task should be firmly in mind. In the case of these ZMMQ webpages, this wiki the pages are is meant to be both informative and enjoyable. In order to foster this goal, all the pages, for this site should be made and maintained in such a way that its content is easily read, well - comprehended (consumed), and heartily enjoyed. Words should be chosen carefully, as well as the structure of both sentences and the page overall. This is to streamline the reading/comprehension process and draw the reader along with as few bumps as possible in their path. Be sure to correct grammatical and spelling mistakes when present, modify and replace words if there are better alternatives, and preserve the message whenever possible.
English Professor Andrew Geyer’s Editorial Strategy with the ZMMQ Site, is mid page here.

It should also be kept in mind that this ZMMQ website uses a few different rules than are otherwise standard, especially when it comes to capitalization of words. Both specific and general words may be capitalized differently, such as the word “quality” which will be capitalized when discussing the idea of Quality as referred to by Sarah Vinke and Robert Pirsig as well as others of this vein. There will also be different capitalizations applied to things referred to as “Idea Packages” which capitalize all words of the given phrase, with the intent of the reader mentally linking them as a complete idea, taken together. These idea packages should be preserved when sensible and replicated when applicable.

It also should be kept in mind that there are two different ways ZMMQ WebPages are seen by a ZMMQ Site Editor:

Several other rules:

Specific – The details of how to make things work

It may be best to read this section with a copy open in what may be called the pm Wiki edit menu, a mode which is found on any one ZMMQ Page, by scrolling to the bottom & click on “Edit”, and entering the password. Right away you will see both the code and the displayed words of the page, as well as the special pmWilki code suggestions, just below the editing window. These codes are listed below, and the result can be easily viewed when editing the page. All of this can also be viewed here on the main site of PMWiki, I’ve simply repeated the most commonly used or useful ones here. To access the sandbox use this link and simply hit the edit text at the bottom: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/Sandbox

Whenever using a different text format, it can be useful to italicize or bold anything that would be so on the page. This is only useful when sending the exact file as an MSW document to another editor, however, as pasting text into a PMWiki page removes all MSW formatting.

Bold text – is done with three ' symbols surrounding the desired text, like so
Italic text – is done with two ' symbols surrounding text, like so
Size changes – the use of brackets and either a plus (+) or minus (-) sign will alter text sizes. The use of either one or two such symbols can be used this should be big and this should be bigger the first uses only one set, both before and after, the second uses two. Likewise this is small and this is smaller

If there is ever a place where you want to show your code or display something that turns out to be code, the command symbols [= =] will force whatever text is inside to be displayed without code effects.

Creating new pages – The most convenient way to create a new page is simply to take the address of an existing page and alter the last section between the brackets into the desired address. For example, to take http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ZmmqForBeginners and change the “ZmmqForBeginners” section and change it to “ZmmqStyleGuide”

Above I’ve simply repeated the most commonly used or useful for the special pmWikli “codes” instructions.

Additional guidance on how to create (or edit) pmWiki WebPage, can be easily viewed here on the main site of PMWiki.

When making new text for a link – to alter the text which a link displays as something else: For example to make the link above display as “start here”, just enter the link in two sets of brackets, use a | symbol, enter the desired display text, and close the double brackets. Like this, which should only be visible in edit mode: Start here

SIDE NOTE: As you saw above two sets of double brackets, is used (in pmWiki), to make an internet link. Now for this reason, ANY additional use of such double brackets, should be avoided, since pmWiki will try to make a link of it!! Similar needs to be realized for, other pmWiki “codes”, that are used in ZMMQ Pages.

To make a link to another location (jump-down), on the same page requires an “anchor” as well as a link to the specified anchor. An anchor is created with two brackets, a # symbol, and a line of text which serves as the identification (ID), of the anchor. Use edit mode to see the following one . To link to an anchor place the link, followed by the ID. To link to that one use the URL of this page ending the anchor, like so: http://venturearete.org/researchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/EditingGuideRpg/#here place double brackets, the anchor, then a | symbol, put in the text you want it to display as, and then close the brackets. An example can be seen in edit more here => . this text
NOTE: this will not work if the anchor is more than one word, there cannot be a space. works, but this one? does not.

Often, when editing, we reference another place on the website. When you do this, if it makes sense, be sure to put into place Standard Motif: Dual Mutual X-Reference Loop, of each to the other reading. Essentially, make sure they mention each other, and why.

To make a sort of hover text Site Master Henry Gurr has discovered that, rather than using text, using an inserted picture with a hover-over caption can work. What follows is the code to make this attachment, with a specific .jpg image that will likely be the standard. As usual carriage returns CANNOT be used, if they appear in the text between the brackets the entire image will be non-functional. Below are two examples, one functioning and the other in its broken state

Good=> <=Good

Bad=>[[Documents.BiographySarahVinkeResourcePage#EN__ | Place your
text here"]] <=Bad

When editing a page it may be useful to insert comments as blind tezxt, either as notes for yourself or anyone else who may come along to edit it. If done correctly, these comments will only be shown when the page is being edited, and will be entirely invisible to a reader. In PMWiki code it’s done as follows: between here -> <- and here. Note, you’ll only see it in edit mode.

Special instructions, so any person later reviewing the wisdom of complex changes, can easily see side by side, the old and new versions: In the event, you anticipate making major editing changes (and complex changes), on say a paragraph, you should do this series => 1) With mouse Highlight the paragraph 2) Ctrl Copy, then 3) delete the paragraph. Then do Ctrl Paste, this paragraph, to where wanted: Now, this newly pasted paragraph, is where the new complex changes should be done. The reason for this series of steps, is that the previous version can be readily viewed in (it’s original form as preserved by MSW
S Track changes), in the deleted form. (An example of this is some 20 inches above: You’ll see it just under ALWAYS-ALWAYS. )

Standard Format for Ending a page ZMMQ Page – You may want to scroll down (to the very end or this document you are now viewing), to see Examples of => The Standard format for the Ending of a ZMMQ Page
A) In Words, The proper format is as follows => A linefeed space, then two each of ----, then double linefeed space, then in two lines, an abbreviated description of the pmWiki page where

B) As you see in the example below, the format for Ending a Page is made up of an abbreviated page title, the author(s), the time of creation, the most recent editor, and the most recent version.

C) Yes, the above is hard to understand, so please study the example below, to see how this goes. You should realize that, by happenstance, the below is the standard format for Ending a Page.
NOTE: For a second example, please scroll to the very end of this page, to see the
Standard Format for ending of the page you are looking at now!

OrigPgCmpsdHsgRevPln9sep16
File = WikiZmmq}ExamplePageName}JamesEssengerHenryGurr16RpgV03.doc

A few tricks to remember

Comparing changes between page versions: While it is preferred that the “show changes” option on a word document be on, for some reason this may not be possible. As an alternate, it is possible to compare page version on the editing portion of a webpage. As can be seen in this example the site keeps a record of page versions, showing the original beside the section with a yellow line to its left and the resultant version with a green line.

Searching a site: Should you ever want to search a particular site for information, there is a function on Google which does exactly that! Simply type into the search bar your requested keyword(s) followed by the site you’re restricting the search to. For example, the following will search for the keyword Pirsig ONLY on Wikipedia: Pirsig site:Wikipedia.org

Copy and paste can be one of the most useful tools in this line of work. That said, sometimes it’s finicky. The fastest way to copy something is to highlight it and press ctrl+c. To paste this put your cursor where it needs to go and either press ctrl+v or right click and click paste. When you do so you may wish to click the paste options item and select “text only” which removes all formatting from the source and uses the default options for the document.

Click here for ZMMQ Total Counter Page.
This a page which keeps track of certain metadata (which just means it’s information about information) on the site, such as what pages have been viewed since the previous midnight (EST), how many times, and so on. It’s a valuable tool to show which pages should be edited with highest priority (since the pages which most people use should be the best pages!), as well as to find pages which were somehow accessed without any links to them.

When creating pages, or adding lines to existing ones, BE VERY CAREFUL that you don’t insert a space at the beginning of a line. Normally text wraps around to a new line when it reaches the maximum width of the page, but with a space at the beginning of a line this won’t happen anymore. Instead, the line continues out and makes the page as wide as it needs to be to accommodate the new line. This can make the page EXTREMELY wide and should be fixed when it happens. A good way to find these spaces is to use advanced find in MS word, and enter the paragraph symbol (^p or, in the newest versions of MS word, ^v) followed by a space. Another, much slower, method is by going from one line to the next with the cursor as far to the left of the line as possible, watching for gaps between the cursor and the first character. Pay special attention to lines with indentation. Using the option where all formatting symbols are shown will make these spaces much easier to see.

Helpful suggestions

When editing pages, it's helpful to have one window open as MSW and the other a preview of the page, to see both if your code works and in general how the page will look when saved.

Editing specific pages

There are certain pages on this site which have special requirements for editing, meaning the editor must either take special care or check more intensely when looking them over. This is often because these pages have site-wide impact, such as the sidebar present on every page on this wiki. The sidebar can be edited by clicking on one of the five hyperlinks at the bottom of every page, “Edit Sidebar” and entering the password. The sidebar page is visible on every single page on this wiki, with the exception of the gallery pages, and so changes to it are extremely impactful. Make sure your changes are really what you want to do!

Menu item summary pages are also important pages, giving readers a further explanation of the pages contained within before they click on the link referenced. The best example of one of these pages is the Information & Essays page, found here: http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ZmmEssays

What to do with links

On this wiki, when links are used it is possible to embed them with hyperlinks (this process is explained in the “specifics” section of this page). However, this is not always preferable, and later down on this page is an explanation of why Sitemaster Henry Gurr prefers hyperlinks to be longer rather than shorter. In many cases, such as on the Information & Essays page linked above, the best format is to explain the link in a couple of lines, then provide the link at the end of the entry. This is to emphasize the explanation, and provide a clear link for the reader to use.

Keep in mind also that links may limit the width of the page, forcing it to stay wide and disabling the wraparound feature. In these cases the link should be put into a hyperlink with plenty of explanation, as these do not disable wraparound.

MSWord “Wildcards”

What they are and how to use them. If you’d like to do research beyond this page I used the following links to write the section below; SOME OF THESE ARE FOR DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF WORD so use with caution, and be VERY careful that you’re wanting to do what you typed into the box! Remember, you can always use the “undo” function if it causes more problems than it fixes. Here are the links =>
how to use wildcards, from worldmvp.com
from office.com, this is VERY detailed! A Good place for beginners, with plenty of pictures
From pcworld.com, this article is focused on increasing your efficiency.

Wildcards are a feature of Microsoft Word’s Find and Replace feature, and have a wide range of uses to speed up both changing sections and changing formats. They can save you HOURS of work if properly used!
First, wildcards are accessed through the Find and Replace function. Bring up the window in MS Word (I’ll usually use ctrl+f to do so). Click the “More > >” button, which will expand the window. Make use the “Use Wildcards” box is checked. With this enabled you can select the desired wildcard from the “Special” drop-down box, or type in the wildcard yourself. IF you’d like a visual representation of this, the page here (the fourth link above) has a picture guide.

Now, on to what the individual wildcards do. You can, and indeed SHOULD mix and match these, as most wildcards are of very limited use on their own. Consider using spaces before and after the terms, especially in the examples below, to narrow down your searches to words rather than parts of words.

The Star, or Asterisk wildcard, represented by a * is one of the more widely useful wildcards, simply because it’s the most general. When * is types into the find box it will find everything with the format you put in. For example, if you know you often use words that begin and end with two particular letters, and you’d like to count the number of a specific same letter, type the letter, then *, and then then another letter. If we use A and R It would look like A*R. This would find the words alter, amber, abhor, altogether, and so on, regardless of what characters are between those letters. This includes spaces, meaning you’ll also turn up “a right”, “all of us would rather” and so on, making this wildcard most useful in conjunction with others presented below.

The Question mark, which uses ?, finds any single character, whether it’s a letter, number, or special character, but always of the same length. If you wanted to find all of your five letter words beginning with Y and ending with f, for example, you would type in “y???f” though I doubt there are any such words in the English language. This would also any time where a y and f were three characters apart, such as “fairly awful”.

The @ wildcard looks for any character or string of characters that’s the same as the one before it. This would be useful when looking for large numbers in your document, especially if combined with the above wildcards. If you wanted to find the times you mentioned large figures, in the thousands or millions, you could put in “10@0” which would search for a 1 followed by one or more zeroes and also ending in a zero. This would catch 1000, 10000, and so on.

The square brackets [] can be used to specify either a range of characters or a group of them, but must be in alphabetical or numerical order, depending on whether you used numbers or letters. Using “[r-b]” will not work, as the letter “r” comes after the letter “b” but using “[a-d]” will work perfectly fine, and find all letters between the two. This works especially well when followed or preceded by the rest of a word, to find all words of a similar composition either beginning or ending with one of the letters specified. For example, if you want to find all words ending with “ing” and preceded by any letter between a-g, you would type “[a-g]ing”. When searching this document that function found “seeing”, “spacing,” and so on. These square brackets are case-sensitive.

The exclamation point wildcard is used, along with the square brackets [] to make an except or not command, to exclude certain things. This would be useful if you wanted to find every word ending in “ing” EXCEPT those that have letters between “n” and “p” and would be entered as “[!n-p]”

The \ function is used to instruct MS Word that what you’re putting in behind it is not actually a wildcard. For example, both “?” and “!” are wildcards, but you may want to find them in your document. So, to prevent them from functioning as wildcards, put a \ in front of them. Like “\?” and “\!”.

The above function can be used in combination with the parentheses function to switch around word order. If you’ve put in multiple places the phrase “three two one” but wish to make it “one two three” then you’d put in “(three) (two) (one)” to the Find what box, and put “\3 \2 \1” in the replace box. This will place the third parenthesis first, the second second, and the first third. The numbers refer to the position of the parentheses, and the position of the number is where than numbered parentheses will be.

Braces or curvy parentheses {} are used in combination with numbers to find ranges. For example, if you wanted to find all the entries with at least two of the number 3 in them, you’d put in “3{2}”. If instead you wanted to find anything in your document with between three and six of the number two, you would type “2{3,6}”

The < and > symbols mark the beginning and end of words, or are used in conjunction with double quotation marks surrounding a single letter to find words beginning or ending with that letter. The first use is best done along with other wildcards, as putting “<an>” in the search box would find the same information as “an”. Instead, consider using “<a*n>” which would find any word beginning with “a” and ending in “n”. An example of the second use, finding any words beginning with a letter before the given one, would look like <”d” and would find all entries beginning with a, b, or c.

Archived Pages

These are websites whose entire purpose is to preserve previous versions of assorted webpages. These often exist as a sort of on-site backup for faster search queries so that a system searching for information can look for that info inside its own system rather than in a network of them. In addition, these archive pages can be used to view a static version of the page, or a previous version of a page that has since been changed or deleted.
Sometimes, and for unknown reasons, pages will disappear from this site – for which editors should be on the lookout. A recent, as of this writing, page to disappear was this page about the ZMM route marked on a National Geographic map. The page was deleted and only recently recovered.
As editors we can use archive sites to recover these pages without too much trouble. https://archive.org/web/web.php is one, if not the best, such archive site. It features tools like the Wayback Machine, which lets you see a previous version of virtually any page. It includes a broken link tracker which functions for blogs and will notify the owner if/when a link stops functioning. Its Save Page Now function allows you to capture a page at a specific time to refer back to it in later dates, essentially setting that page in stone. It’s strongly recommended that every editor, and every interested party in fact, familiarizes themselves with the functionalities of this website!

Dictionary plugin

Google has a system of extensions and plugins for its in-house browser called Google Chrome. These extensions add tremendous functionality to Google Chrome, and are extremely powerful. Personally, I use the adblock extension to block popups and banner ads, though in recent times websites have developed tracking methods which remove functions from the site for those using adblock. These extensions can be paused or disabled without trouble, however, if you either don’t like how the extension behaves, or if it doesn’t play well with websites.

The dictionary plugin specifically is a powerful tool which lets you search words or phrases in a page, essentially running a google search and giving you the best results without opening a new tab. To add the extension go here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-by-goog/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja?hl=en and click “add to chrome” on the window it goes. However, you MUST use chrome to have ANY of these extensions, as these are browser-specific. Firefox has its own group of extensions, if that’s the browser you prefer, a similar addon can be found here for firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/english-popup-dictionary/. The Dictionary extension has versions for the following languages: Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, and Turkish.

There are a variety of other extensions you may find useful as either an editor or reader, and the full list of them for Chrome can be seen here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en

As always, if you have any feedback on the extensions presented here, or any additional plugins to suggest, please use the “contact me” link that can be found at the bottom of every page!

This page has a series of helpful tips designed for advertising, but these tips can be generalized to making Documents & WebPages overall moe appealing, more accessible, and thus retain reader involvement.

The site itself is geared towards persuasive psychology in general, helps us at understanding cognition and decision making, and presents such in palatable chunks well worth perusing. In particular, this page gives various tips for advertising, and I’ve narrowed the focus to what should be applied in ZMMQ Editing. Added are thoughts to the few that apply the most to this ZMMQ site, those being tactics 1, 2, 5, 17, 20, 23, and with some hesitance tactic 8.
Tactic 1: This article starts with images & other visual graphics, since they are VERY important: When you place images and visual graphics toward the left side of your page, will increase processing fluency, because the visuals on left will go to side or brain that can best use it. Conversely, text on right side will go to the side of brain that can best respond to text. People will thus digest your page more quickly, generating a more favorable evaluation
It is true that images are currently not much on ZMMQ: BUT that’s so much more the reason images need appropriate attention in ZMMQ Eit Guide: But of course, only so far as there is time to do it, and good images happen be found, which is admittedly not often,

Tactic 2: Depict Products to Encourage Mental Interaction. If you only read one tactic in this psychological article…read this one. This tactic is (a) very powerful (b) easy-to-implement, and (c) virtually unused by most businesses. Starting now, always depict your product so that you achieve an underlying goal: to encourage mental interaction. Here’s an example, when showing the reader a coffee mug, show the mug when the handle was facing the right. Since most readers are right handed, they can visualize themselves nicely using it!

Tactic 5: Enlarge words that convey an emotion. Larger images, words included, grab & focus the attention of people and trigger emotions, which in turn leads to greater engagement. In your editing and composition of pages, when you want to convey a strong feeling, use character formatting to grab the attention of the reader, and to grab engagement as well, just remember to do so with precision.

Tactic 17: Use rational appeals for new markets & new ideas for the reader. When someone is first exposed to an idea their exposure should be much more rational and argument-based: Then, later, emotion-dominated exposures, presented. When marketing ideas to new audiences, you should first provide them with well-thought-out and firm reasons to continue or accept your ideas, that are: This is the chance to engage with the reasoning portion of the brain.

Tactic 18: which compliments 17, suggests using emotional appeals for markets already sold on your idea. These markets will have already gone through the rational arguments and made their decisions, and emotional ones will positively engage their shorter, less attentive decisions.

Tactic 20: Use positive framing so your ideas presented will be memorable. Positive framing seems to make concepts sink in better than negative framing, while negative framing causes a stronger attention grab. To gain the benefit of both, repeated exposure can be used to grab interest with a negative framing, focusing on current problems with a ration outlining, which shifts later toward positive, emotional framing with every additional exposure. For example, a page on an issue like cognition could open by demonstrating, point by point, the issues in current understanding of cognition, and close with reframing those issues in the light of potential remedies.

Tactic 23: Disperse your ad exposures over time. Repeated introductions to a subject not only makes people more likely to recall the information, but lowers their likelihood of becoming tired of it. Studying several spaced out in increments, rather than cramming, for example, has a much higher rate of recall for information. The same phenomenon occurs on repeated exposure to advertisements, ideas, and so on, and should be taken advantage of when applicable.

Tactic 8: Rhyme your slogan or call-to-action. Rhythmic cadence makes things much easier to remember, possibly because much of the information is predictable based on previous information, and so easy to recall. This is why many stories were sung rather than spoken, because the song was more readily transmissible, easier to remember, and if portions were forgotten the gaps could be filled in by whatever rhymes were remembered. However, I’m hesitant to use this tactic, because a rhyme makes things more memorable whether or not they’re good things to remember. Often, a first exposure to a what may turn out to be a bad slogan, can overshadow the idea for the rest of its attention life, and drive away people who might otherwise be receptive. So I encourage heavy caution when using this tactic, as it’s a double-edged sword.

Repetition

Similar to tactic 8 above, when generating pages ideas can be repeated. This helps to drive home the concept, as people are more accepting of familiar ideas than foreign ones. This concept is related to the Illusory Truth effect, or more aptly, the Reiteration Effect Click here for the Wikipedia page, which explains more. Essentially, people seem to be more receptive to familiar ideas, and so making an idea familiar makes it more acceptable inherently. The section here, until the page-width line, is copied directly from Sitemaster Henry S Gurr’s thoughts.

1)Lots of these [repetitions] are done on purpose, for benefit of reader, to “Grind The Concepts IN” and for psycholog[ical] IMPACT:
2) The Word LITANY comes to my mind Be sure you understand THIS IDEA then [of repetition strengthening the impact]
3) If you think that some of these are “over-done” please say in brackets?

Word choices

This article contains many suggestions aimed at writing better essays courtesy of the JustEnglish blog. It suggests using less common, but still known, words to avoid saturation and in general lazy writing. The article suggests using “exact” or “precise” instead of just “right” to express something being correct. With that in mind, writers should avoid being opaque with their words, and choose the best one for their situation. For the most part, this is a matter of taste rather than any fact of reality – some people may prefer to use the word “decrepit” to describe a road with a poor history of maintenance, while to others “rundown” may be the best choice.

From the Hopfield Theory page, and useful here as well

We all must remember the following, from a Robert Pirsig Interview =>:
” So, I found that certain people know this [sense of “better’] automatically and they are usually skilled artists. When you're trying to create a painting or a piece of music you've got to have this feeling of what's better. And just this feeling of what is better immediately will guide to whatever you want to do.”

Also in the above mentioned Pirsig Interview, Mr: Pirsig makes the point by quoting Robert Redford’s saying
" ‘That's how I make my films!’ Well, I don't know what I'm going to do [either], I just have to see what has Quality. If it has Quality then I'll do it. If it doesn't have Quality, I won't do it. If I look at it a week later and I see it doesn't have Quality, I'll throw it out. If I suddenly, in the middle of the night say, think of something better, I'll put that in.”

This reminds Henry Gurr of Frank Lloyd Wright’s statement:
“The Architect’s two best friends are the eraser and the sledge hammer.” … Meaning, that if you see “better”, immediately use these “remover tools”, with no regrets (or looking back): You erase / sledgehammer “the not so good”, to make way for “better”!
And also meaning: Don’t fret over the loss of your valuable investment of extensive previous work, no matter how difficult it was to do it, or how long this took !!!!!

Appendix 0 – Notes Directly From Henry S Gurr Email of Dec 7 2016 7:15pm .

On ZMMQ, could I ask you to use Goog, & find all cases of www.usca.edu/math/ and then edit fix as well as review the whole page while you are at it.
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Henry Gurr Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 7:58 PM
Ryan I just went to the bottom of several ZMMQ pages, and see the OLD footer, that I thought you had up-dated per my email of ~4 weeks ago. the first of which i

rpgnaiken@gmail.com Tue, Nov 29, 2016, 10:20 PM
I'll get it done tomorrow and will call if I encounter any problems! Ryan George

Ryan George Wed, Nov 30, 2016, 9:45 AM
After some investigation I've found that the "contact me" link here => http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Main.GroupFooter works correctly,
Ryan George
AttachmentsWed, Nov 30, 2016, 12:42 PM
Here are some of the pages I fixed the usca.edu links for http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/ContactUs "contact us" doc http://ven

Henry Gurr <henrysgurr@gmail.com> Thu, Dec 1, 2016, 12:27 PM
to Ryan, bcc: GS3.3, bcc: Why

Ryan

Thanks for promptly working on these:

All is clear.

In looking at the 3 attachments, I see that you have correctly updated the bad links, but i am surprised that no other needed improvements were found.

For example in 2nd attachment Kuhn, there is this that looks peculiar > proofs.&#148;

My writing can't hardly be that good, and part of what i wish you to do is zero in on places that are't so hot, and bring e'm up to speed. Since you are hardly not finding any changes, I will have to ask you to look harder, a whole lot harder!! Here are some methods you can try:

A) As you are reading a ZMMQ Page, pay attention, when you must, suddenly, back up and read a word or a sentence again .... Then study for what was the "failure to follow", and attempt fix ...

B) On any page, especially when new to you, just start reading anywhere ... middle of a sentence …. middle of a paragraph, …. any where up and down the whole page …. it should make sense AND be UN-comfusing, and enough supplied comftext, for any place you happen to drop into!!

C) Any others here ?

Here is another way, I suggest to prime your attention feelers, where I hope you will look (back) at some time => Please study the various (in red), changes I have completed in the past: (for example look at my red's in the SVB you had gone thru, and study what I was trying to improve, what was done and why, and was it successful in your judgement. ...

In some cases it is simply change the ordering of the words in a sentence, so that important ideas come first, so esp newbees, can see what the sentence is trying to accomplish, right at first. Similarly, for the ordering of sentences, for same reasons. Similarly for ordering of paragraphs, for same reasons.

Also please remember when editing any ZMMQ Page, the last two lines need to be up dated, with a new file name, and words say who did what editing, You should be using the established pattern seen there.

Or better: Evolve towards some idealized standard.format, which you start to evolve all ZMMQ Pages towards.

You could study a bunch of them, and see what is the dominant, and most successful, and most compact format. A good way to do this, is to have completed the collection of all of them we have discussed, and saved into that "Editing Rules Page: we have discussed and posted on an un-used about blank page. Which I hope will soon go up so I can see it.

Keep on trucking ...

PS: this has been written rapidly, let me know if any part(s), are unclear.

Thanks O’l Prof

NEW TOPIC:

I probably have other such “collections of “ZMMQ Editing Rules”, or equivalent when emailing to Andrew Geyer or Dennis Gary, and will bring these forth as they Mentally Appear.

And You may remember me saying there was an old document (really an email), that had a collection of some of my rules, which were to be sent to you, so you can integrate good overall way into your “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”.doc

The email had SUBJECT & date => Here are my comments and "please do" requests re one of the attachments RE: down loaded your four attached + Cpy for you … Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 2:17 PM

To: Rosanna Willhite [rosiejw@hotmail.com]

Cc: Dave Matos [davidjmatos@gmail.com]

Below is my newly abstracted & re-arranged content from that email, where each item should be added to your ever expanding “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”.doc Some of these rules you may have already incorporate, in which case this is a double check, and possibly some added wording.

1) While edit working on any one ZMMQ pmWiki Page,

a) Have the Track changes ON, and the Show Changes in Color.

b) Have the auto-save, turned ON, for every 5 minutes => First BAK.

c) Every time editor has a pause in work (~every 15 to 30 min), always remember to do a save-as to a new file number 01,02,03…

i) First to a USB memory stick with file devoted to this editing=>2ndBAK (Done 1st since the auto-bak is in cptr already)

ii) Then second to ~”MyDocs” in your computer = 3re BAK

iii) 2the -the Memory Stick.

iv) Any other here ?

2) Before you start work on any one new ZMMQ Page, please ask me, since there may also other editor persons also working concurrently and I need to be sure your work not duplicated.

3) To keep me somewhat pre-informed, is a good idea any way, so I can reply with short feedback. I will always, look forward to what you have to say about the work, and your personal and professional opinions (good or bad), about ZMMQ.

4) As soon as a lot of work is finished, and you are leaving your computer over night of for several days, it is a good idea to send me all you most recent, work as email attachments: This way I can send back my comments and "please do" requests, responding to you sent me.

5) In general, you as an editor, need to be looking from the readers view-point, and probable available knowledge, especially the newbee!! AND do your best to make the page “user friendly”: Here Andrew Gyer’s “WebPage Editors” thoughts should be consulted: These are in this . “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”.doc, so many inches above/below.

6) Whenever you are working on a especially long page, or complex or involved, consider having (at the top), a “Clickable Jump-Down Table of Contents” For pages that are very extensive, this clickable contents, makes the page more user friendly. To do this, it’s fastest and easiest to C&P (into your new.doc), an existing pmWiki Code (for the “Clickable Jump-Down Table of Contents”), such as at the top of link next or RPG’s favorite at ­­­­­­­­­­­________.

7) This 6), also applies to the menu, where we need to be finding a way for it to be highly functional and easy to use.

8) Don't forget: Be sure to have the "show changes" turned on, ... if you would please! Otherwise I have really no way to find and study, how the editing work in going, and provided feedback.

9) As you are working (0r any time in your daily life), it will be Good for you to be on the look-out for very nice links, to be added to your current editing work, or any other page, sooner or later.

10) It is easy to miss wrong punctuation's, and capitals: Also there may be missing information or ideas: The reader needs this, you should move to find better correct information, and repost to me what happened.

The most glaring problem I found with the website is that the Pirsig trip photos are perhaps buried too far down? And the link did not work (it takes you to the photo gallery but not to the pictures that are elsewhere in the gallery. This probably requires a new pmWiki install, but this can’t happen very soon. Thus the editor must, be sure to provide (non-normal links to get the visitor to the correct view, and the correct time. Added verbal text instructions may also be needed: Examples art already in service, the editor need to spot these, and keep a handy list of “Good Stuff”, in this “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”.doc

11) Any other here ?

12) Ryan: You see these last 3 items, have a format change: Nothing I can try gets rid of this: You may have to C&P this to notepad, then C&P, into your new document to clear this damming crap.

Below is my newly re-arranged set of Rules I emailed to Rosanna,

~same date and subject as above: This should be added to your ever expanding “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”.doc, in an appropriate place, to fit a developing series of ideas, where first things go first: Some of these rules you may have already incorporate, in which case this is a double check, and possibly some added wording. The format of these may be changed to fit what already exists. ******

A) Please make it a rule to please put into practice, what you generally see already done, on average, in ZMMQ.

B) When ever editing a page that is discussing things like Pirsig’s Quality, the word should be CAPITALIZE> Such as Dennis Gary statement re Sarah = “You're Quality!!”. Otherwise, use lower case q, as in quality of goods or services.

C) You DO need to be careful, NOT to change the “manner” in which an author speaks such as Mr. Gary. The authors own special funny ways should remain, especially if in a “Quote”: Thus many places you will see my instruction in double square brackets?, as in this example =>

D) If you as an editor, do not see my changes (or instructions), shows in a different color, and if not and you will have to search for => [[ to find them. Also please let me know, my changes (or instructions), don’t show in a different color.

E) Additional suggestions: In general you should be editing on pages not already done by Dr. Geyer, Rosanna, or Ryan George, this is because there is so MUCH other BAD stuff to get to!!!!!!!!! .

F) When contemplating the next page, that you plan to work on, you should consult the “List of Last Two Lines, for All ZMMQ Pages”, which is at the very end of this “ZMMQ editing guide by RPG”. This will show when & who did editing, and should guide => your choice of what needs edited next. ((Note to RPG: As I have already suggested this could be derived from a C&P of the complete ZMMQ Menu, into MSW. BUT there are more that needed to be added: Because, as you are aware, there are up to ~25 other pages, that are not mentioned in menu, and to find them Goog http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/

G) The Following is example of what “standard” format should be for the two (above mentioned), end of a ZMMQ WebPage: Specifically please notice the EXACT placing of the spaces, and how many, and EXACT placing of the “full line” or “double full line”. This example is from ZMMQ Home Page (As a general matter, please study & follow THE STYLE OF THE ENTIRE PAGE, of Dr Geyers pages. Thanks .

START EXAMPLE

16) Gary Wegner’s Travelogue of Pirsig’s 1968 Motorcycle Trip

Edited by Andrew Geyer 11 Aug 2011, With ZMM Radio Drama added by Henry Gurr 21 June 2011

File = WikiZmmqHomePageC&pFmWww100903.AgV03.Hg02.doc

END example of what “standard” format should e for end of a ZMMQ WebPage

Appendix I – Notes Directly From Henry S Gurr.

A) In MS Word, It Is Highly Recommended, And In This Case Please Make-It-A-Rule => Work With MS Word Set To => “No Spacing”, Choice at top of MSW Screen.
As is stated elsewhere ZMMQ Edit Guide, there are lots of reasons for turning ON “Formatting Marks”, in MS Word > Top > File > Scroll to bottom > Options > Display > “Always show these formatting marks” > Check All.
Similarly, you are requested to work with “No Spacing”, Choice at top of MSW Screen. This will avoid confusing surprises, for yourself, and any editor(s), that follow you. Thanks.
B) Recommended Sequence => When in pmWiki Edit Box, you should variously => Click-on pmWiki “Preview” rather than “Save” or “Save & Edit”.
As is the case for most of this ZMMQ Edit Guide, it is recognized that these instructions are somewhat Telling You What You Already Know. Despite this it is hoped you will swallow your pride, and Take ‘Em On Faithfully. AND If You Know Better, Discuss It, And Then Together Revise This Guide!
When a person is creating or editing a Draft ZMMQ Page, naturally there are times when it is needed to see what it looks like, and then continue work on the draft.
Most of the time “Preview” should be used, since it does not change the posted version, and is relatively unable to do undesired damage.
But at the end of all edit work on draft there should be somewhat of a Standard Procedure to efficiently complete the job, while minimizing the chance of mistakes or forgetting something.
When editing on a Draft ZMMQ Page is complete, and final check-overs done, of course do SaveAs and SaveAs BAK. Then:
CTRL-A (Highlight All), CTRL-C (Copy To Clipboard), then in pmWiki Edit Box, =>
CTRL-A (Highlight All), CTRL-V (Paste To pmWiki Edit Box), then
Click-on pmWiki “Preview” at which point this is a VERY good time for a thorough check-over: And best in the pmWiki “Preview”, because the editor is seeing exactly what the Page Visitor will see, all the Bolds, Italic, spacing and indents.
Although, in MS Word, a complete last check over, has already been done, a second check-over, in pmWiki “Preview”, will be the most effective, as stated in e), AND be done with ~New Eyes, and a different point of view, thus achieve increased effectiveness!!
Then Click “Save & Edit”, and at this point it is suggested you, again Click “Preview”, since it gives BOTH the newly completed ZMMQ Page, AND the pmWiki Edit Box, ready in case a new MS Word Versions needs to be placed there.
But as stated elsewhere in this ZMMQ Edit Guide, there are lots of reasons for resisting doing any edit changes, (excepting small ones). in the pmWiki Edit Box.

C) What To Do About MS Word Automatic Anything, Especially Automatically Make-A-Line, Full Width of Page.

As it is (I think), stated elsewhere in the ZMMQ Edit Guide, there are lots of general reasons for turning off nearly all automatic features of MSW. Of course, what features you use is pretty much up to you, the ZMMQ Editor. But the reason it is recommended to “Turn OFF ALL Automatic”, is basically because editing involves a mix of details and odd motions. And this is a quite DIFFERENT requirement from Speed Typing, which all these automatic features are there for.
Now to the point: One MS Word automatic feature causes near permanent addition of a full width line, AND there is no known way turn it OFF.
The only way to prevent a dysfunctional MSW full line from slapping onto your page, is to => ALWAYS ADD A SINGLE SPACE BAR STROKE, at the END of any of the following, BADDIE strings, listed below:.
This includes the 4 dashes ---- used in pmWiki, to make a full width line on a Posted ZMMQ Page.
Please notice the Three Different Kinds of Strings, and their effect:
The last one using Profiles June 14, 2017, at 10:53 PM is an interesting case, different from all the rest!!
You should try a Line Feed after ~~~~~~

In MSW these below are BADDIE Strings: Where you MUST put a space bar space at the end before you hit the Enter Key (ie Line Feed or Carriage Return) ALSO cause very wide page as noted below.
NOTE: When you have the pmWiki, EXCEEDINGLY WIDE page, and all efforts to remove it fail, a good procedure is to scroll down the very right hand side, and study the lines that are the longest, for any peculiarity: For “extras” that are NOT in the MSW Work.doc => For examples a1. or a black dot about 2 mm in diameter, depending on the size of your screen and zoom level.

_______________

=======================

..#####################. A long series of these ~ in pmWiki, beyond one, may cause EXCEEDINGLY WIDE page, which was seen once.

.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. <= A long series of these ~ in pmWiki, beyond one, may cause EXCEEDINGLY WIDE page, which was seen once..
******** . <= A long series of these stars * in pmWiki, beyond *** three likely will cause EXCEEDINGLY WIDE page. If you see a black dot about 2 mm in diameter, this is because too many of these stars.

GOOD Strings: At end, may hit Enter Key (ie Line Feed ie Carriage Return), without any MSW Automatic Add-On.

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END

Appendix II More ZMMQ Editing Notes Directly From Henry S Gurr.

[Notes to be future added to this Guide, the guideline type ideas, that I gave you when you first started working with me. These are in your paper notes (you wrote at the time), and should be transcribed into here. … One example I told you back then is => “Or course the ZMMQ Editor works from their own standards. But ALSO they internalize how I think and write, and seem to set priorities, and as they are edit improving the pages, they are doing as as I would do, if I had the time to do it! “ They acting as if they were my hands, and mind, in the course of their own ZMMQ Editor Actions!! ]

A) MORE RULES FOR ZMMQ EDITORS; [RPG please add per above instructions.]
1) When editor is working from one of HSG’s MSW SavedAs email Attachments => There should NOT have any deviations from what posted, but errors can always creep in, so be alert and let me know if you see any. For examples
a) I fail to properly be sure the SavedAs is identical to the one pmWiki posted and Save’d
b) I make a mistake in choosing the file to Attach Email send to you.
c) You can contrast the respective File Names in the Email Attachment <with> what shows at bottom of posted ZMMQ Page: HOWEVER this is only an indicator, because I can forget to keep those two file names, the same.

B) As a general practice, when starting editing: Pease verify, that the Track Changes are turned ON, plus also turn on The Show All Changes. AND then WATCH that as you make editing changes, that the different color SHOWS on your typing. The color will depend on what color MSW assign to you, [[Ryan Please add this B) into your expanding “ZMMB Edit Guide”, as item c), just below where your “ZMMB Edit Guide” says => two different ways are seen by ZMMQ editor

C) Getting back to an old topic => Way back in my email to you of 12 27 2016. SUBJECT = Set up meeting time + items … , I was continuing my ideas about the Special Bold Code Letter, that is placed at start of the line with the Title of any one ZMMQ Menu Line; please review my discussion at => “ …. The D W U system … “
1) Back THEN, you will remember we had discussed adding a SECOND Special Bold Code Letter, which as I remember, had to do with state of editing for the ZMMQ Menu Lines; that were ~Section Headers,.. AND as you recall, the page they lead to > MANY of these that have the ? that mean no page, which means in turn that they should be supplied with content ASAP!! And I hope you have the idea, that is one of your many priorities. . (You’ll have to refresh my memory, is this correct?)

D) Preamble: You will remember there is on ~ every ZMMQ WebPage, a last part called “For Further Reading’s”: These have their own history of editing, and for reasons below I think should ( For this Category), have Code Letters, similar to B) above, and as discussed next down.
1) AND let this THIRD Code Letter follow the “ …. The D W U system … “ BUT have the following choices of CODE LETTER’s =>
D = Done, meaning the ZMMQ Editor has checked (and brought up to standard), for the state of Readability, Completion, and All Links Checked NOT to be dead
W = Working on it per a) above.
U = Still un done, and needs attention.
N = Need to add a standard set of line items “For Further Reading’s”
G = Go to specified), place on this LinksAndLine, and do what is there-upon suggested, already written out, by HSG or some other ZMMQ Editor. OR Alternatively, specify another document and its location. .

2) Now to the point of the N above: In the past the “FxnCprts”, has had very few visitor, and thus there needs to be More Advertising =>.
a) My first suggested step is add the following advertisement into EVERY ZMMQ Page, when you are doing there, NEW Editing, when you get to it, per your various priority reasons.
b) AND most especially, the NEXT Editing Effort is shifted to all the ZMMQ Menu lines above black text = ZMMQuality WebSite: Information Concerning *** Zen and the Art of *** Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig WHERE
c) Highest priority goes to the Techie Fix-It type of ZMMQ page, most or which are in top 10 inches of ZMMQ Menu..
d) Here is my suggested advertisement content (to be added to Further Readings as per above.) Naturally (per normal you edit), and adjust the format is adjusted to fit what is there around. AND I suggest this below is the LAST Further Reading, each ZMMQ Page, when you get there..

3) If you own (or use), a computer, please remember Henry Gurr’s Guide => Successful Troubleshooting & Fixing Computers. You will learn much about General Principles Of Problem Solving, and TroubleShooting / Repair of anything, not just computers! Please add this link to your Browser Bookmarks / Favorites
http://venturearete.org/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/Documents/JoysProfitsJesFixenOlComputers

E) Beyond the 24 Item MSW Clipboard => Need a better (faster easier), way to ~Auto Type, various words, phrases & special symbols, or word strings, etc. For example pmWiki Code(s) such as .'''. or .----. or 
1) Here are several Ways, that need to be investigated
a)MSW is where I wanted to save as ~auto text three generic apostrophes, use in pmWiki for start or end Bold, but must remember, there be no carriage ↲ return between
b)MSW help says we can do a) with their Auto Text Gallery: See this C&P below. HOWEVER, my version of MSW, has a hang-up, and says I can’t do it :-((
c) s a better alternate: Need a DnLd & Install APP, that can do a), for all running programs on Windows Computer, not just MSW. In other words we need a Universal Special Word Inserter, from our premade list, and do with single key stroke.:
d) So I Google => ... Auto type quick key special words.... , Here is the first one Goog found => https://www.murgee.com/auto-typer/ which says “Auto Typer to Automatically Type on Keyboard” This looks reasonable, a complete search for a good (best), APP still needs to be done .
e) In looking for the html symbol for carriage ↲ return: I Google, and find much other, but in process, I happen go to > MS Word, > Insert > Symbol > More Symbols . Special Characters > and see many useful one including what look like pmWiki Code for bold, such as .'''. but it isn’t .

F) MORE IDEAS => Beyond the 24 Item MSW Clipboard => Need a better (faster easier), way to ~”Auto Type”, various words, phrases & special symbols, or word strings, etc. For example
1) I have discussed ways to more rapidly be able to (as needed), Quick-n-Easy, insert special phrases, etc. that happen again and again; Robert Pirsig said he had a special key on his computer that would insert Quality !!
2) In order to do 1) above, here are some ways that I regularly use and recommend.
a) Attached to the side of my computer screen is a 8.5 X 11 inch paper page with my Standard Abbreviations Which Augment Those Already Found In A Dictionary. These are most especially used when I am trying to pack a lot of information about a SaveAs Page, into a SaveAs File Name, and keep less than 80 Characters Max .You may ask for a copy of this if desired.
b)Sometimes my 24 item MSW Clipboard is full and has lots of expressions I know I will want to come back to, and also I want to not lose some of these, in case of Computer or MSW JamUp / Crash. So I make a SavedAd.doc with what I call a Clip Board Dump: I do all 24 of e’m (even if trivial or unlikely future use): This saves time trying to decide which to pass over, and preserves (partly), the history of what I was doing, some times needed to de-convolve the meaning of the dumped items.
c) This same function is provided by the Notes Data Field of my
i) Gmail Address Book and or
ii) My Chrome Browser BookMarks.
iii)I use Chrome browser for i) and ii), because these are available near instantaneous, on any computer I am using. this since
iv) There is a ?Chrome Extension? Called “Pocket”, that is also useful for this purpose. It’s highly rated, but I haven’t yet got going on it much.
v) Similar function can be achieved in any person’s Browser History. Or
vi) Exceeding useful Chrome Extension, called Tabs Outliner, that will when asked remember what Chrome Tab(s), you are looking at, when you ask to (temporarily), remove that Tab from your Chrome Browser screen

G) Concerning Creating ZMMQ Pages In (And Editing Morphing Towards), What Wikipedia calls “Alphanumeric Hierarchical Tree Format” AHTF).
((See excerpts from Wikipedia below.))

1) This is what MSW, auto complete, will automatically supply, but in pmWiki we must manually type the I), A), 1), a), i) manually, and use the -> and --> to do the indent:
2) To achieve this in pmWili is difficult and sometimes the structure format ends up being incomplete.
3)In such cases the ZMMQ Editor, should try to move the page closer to Somewhat More Standardized Hierarchical Structure Format. But ONLY if easy and NOT much time to complete. (As of this writing, the “FxnCpter” page could use some of this improvement. Thanks.)

H) More Ideas On Format for Appearance and Readability and Convey Topic Relationships, Indicated By Special Inserts and Extra Line Spacing.
1) For a long time, we have effectively used the full page-wide solid line, done in pmWiki by ---- at the start of a new line. This has been ~ standard practice has been good and should continue.
2) However, in the very long and involved “FxnCptrs” Page, I have added two more practices that I suggest should become ~ standard. I believe these also will help the reader.
a) To set off one (or several), paragraphs of information (or instructions), which are somewhat different “nature’, I have used instead of ---- I have (at the start of a new line C&P), this less decisive divider ---o00OO00o---
b) But the ZMMQ Editor should be aware => Sometimes this pattern of Bolded ---o00OO00o---', fails to be in the center, and the ZMMQ Editor should try to repair, and tell other Editors what was needed.
c) The times I have seen the pattern fail to be in center, is when following the pmWiki Code for making smaller font => this will show as smaller font .
3) Another way, in “FxnCptrs”, I have tried to help the reader understand (or realize), there is a larger than normal major change of topic, is to introduce not just one ↲ but two ↲ or three ↲’s leading to much bigger separation, meaning the reader is to realize a bigger transition in nature of topic.

I) MORE Ideas On Format for Appearance and Readability and Convey Topic Relationships, Indicated By Special Inserts and Extra Line Spacing.
1) On a pmWiki Document Page, when it comes to creating (or editing of), the positioning of a jump down target [#ThisIsASampleTarget], please follow the following rule:
2) This rule is so the reader eye can instantly can pick out the topic of the jump down (usually a Bolded Title Sentence), “in open space”, at the top of the screen.
3) RULE => Please place the [#example-target], next line down, after the end of the previous reading, which may for example be marked with ----: Then add two ↲ line feeds, and then the Bolded Title Sentence, that starts the jumped down content.
4) This rule is fairly well followed on “FxnCptrs” Bage, and has been followed for a long time, on other ZMMQ pmWili Pages.
5) However, for the ZMMQ Editor to maintain this rule as standard practice, will require some attention. But I believe this will help the readers, to quickly ‘see”, they have arrived at the place they are looking for.
6) Occasionally the intended , may not function correctly, most likely because the # is omitted in the

7) On the pmWiki Preview => There are TWO possible indicators of mal-function =>

8) Of course some new links will have the INDICATORS, meaning possibly a new page is to be created, jus as soon as A) You are Logged-On to pmWike AND B) You happen to click just once.
9) And because 8) can accidentally make a confusing WRONG new page, the ZMMQ Editor must be careful when NOT to click!!
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‘‘‘A Good Listing Summary of All ZMMQ Pages | Documents | Recent Changes: ‘‘‘
a) Ryan please add a new => Explanation and Link to “ZMMQ Edit Guide” AND “ZMMQ LinesAndLinks”. I just accidentally discovered, this neat summary of all the ZMMQ Pages (even I think), those we don’t know about, beyond the ZMMQ Menu!). This listing of All Pages has => Date Of When ?Last Edit? (with Most Recent On Top) + Changes By Whom (Half by Dave Matos).
b) Which forces me to look where the Dave Matos, came from … I look at this link, see that the half without Dave Matos, have a ? And I discover that this apparently is typed-in UNDER the pmWiki edit box, two fields, where can add author and Page Title, which I filled out for => Henry S Gurr With Editing by Ryan P George?: Diagrams To Illustrate Two BASIC Ideas: Parts Swap a) One vs Two Computers. When you look
c) And this is where normally these are supposed to be supplied, and I gather one place where Google Trawlers find this information, if we supply it there. And o/c this is subsequently, what is given in a Google Search Results.
d) For standard practice, may I suggest, we fill out at least the Author Box with BOTH author and editor, whenever any one ZMMQ Page, in is final stages of Edit and Post.

K) The above d) reminds me that in ZMMQ editing pages, another rule:
a) We in so far as possible use “Official Language” and “Official Special Terms”, in this case I had to type, Google “Results”: Typically my language, would be => Google Hit Page, which is very UN official..
This also applies to using quotes of Titles and Descriptions which we use C&P, of of a linked page for example. Saves us time create the sentences, and gets exactly what is there (without distortion of our re-interpretations), so the reader can recognize it when they get there.
L) The above h) reminds me of my sincere suggestion to all editors (especially Ryan), and thus another rule: In general supply lots more (pre) information.
a) When it comes to creating Titles, Hot Link Blue Content, and even the jump down target [#ThisIsASampleTarget], please use lots of information: The reader does NOT know what is there, and it is up to the editor to supply lots of descriptive information, so the reader can make an informed decision whether (or not), to go there.
b) ALSO, rather long (full) => Titles, Descriptive Paragraphs, Hot Link Blue Content, etc., HELPS the reader when they get there: They have a ‘Prepared Mind”, and can start decoding the new page they have arrived at, much faster, and more accurately. Thanks

Appendix III – Notes Directly From Stan Levine, Professor Emeritus of Latin and French at USC Aiken.

From: Stan Levine Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 1:51 AM
Subject: PS [More thoughts]
To: Henry Gurr <henrysgurr@gmail.com>

Near the end [it says]: “since biologically they” – I would follow the word they with a colon, but that is optional. For clarity’s sake and to help the reader, I would use bullets in front of each of the endings you list for this sentence. (bullets, numbers, letters, etc. are helpful in any kind of list in which each item is more than one or two words.

From: Stan Levine
Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:07 AM
Subject: PPS [Even more thoughts]
To: Henry Gurr <henrysgurr@gmail.com>

If I were you, I would rewrite or eliminate the final paragraph. It is too diffident. The final words should be a strong restatement to clinch your argument, not an apology for your deficiencies. If you want to include that, I would put it (fundamentally rewritten) near the beginning to acknowledge the reason(s) why he might think your ideas are not worth the time to read about them, in order to show why despite those apparent draw-backs he should indeed want to hear your ideas. All that as briefly and concisely as possible, since you need to get to the substance before he puts the message aside.

The ancient Romans, the greatest orators in human history, said that the first thing to accomplish when addressing an audience was “captatio volentiae”, which means basically to get the (reader’s or listener’s) attention, more literally, to capture his “will” that is his willingness, his good-will. Once you get the reader on your side, then your argument will find a more willing ear. This is what I was aiming to suggest in what I wrote.

At the end – that is the final chance to clinch the argument in your favor. It needs to be convincing and if possible so striking that it will remain engraved in the reader’s mind.

From: Stan Levine
Date: Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:18 AM
Subject: Additional Note
To: Henry Gurr <henrysgurr@gmail.com>

I consider it bad form, in an academic context, to get red in the face, shout and bang on the table!!!

That means I am very parsimonious with italics, underlining, all-caps and I especially avoid MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!! : ) .. Regards, Stan

Appendix IV - The Navy Method and repetition

HSG to Ed Cooley
Thanks for your thoughts on need for "repetition"
....You are right on all points.
......Indeed, during my formal education, speech class or book reading, your "Navy Technique:", was many times exactly promoted,
........AND in perhaps 1/3 or cases, I have consciously tried to use this, As I wrote out my paper notes, for my stand up speech presentations.
..........Lots of times the "Navy Technique:", will be in my writing or speech preparation, without my specifically being conscious that I am doing this.
............For example it is natural to add an Introduction, and then a Conclusion, that accomplish the "Navy Technique:",

And you are exactly correct => "repetition technique would have to be used with great care to not bore your readers."
.... In fact, when I do come on heavy with repetition, I explain to the reader, why this is needed!

Ed Cooley to HSG
Prof Zelmer asks a question, "Why say things more than once?"

Dr Gurr - I remind you that when you stopped by the other day, that you pointed out to me specific text that I had just read, but I had not placed sufficient thought on what you felt were important statements.

Since you are not there for all your readers to say, "take a look at this again and think on it, what does it mean to you?" As you graciously did for me, then additional means of emphasis are required to indicate the importance of a specific subject.

I know teachers that use repetition for this, and it's also a well-known technique in the US Navy, as follows...

The instructor will say:
1) I'm going to tell you what I'm going to tell you. (Summary/Table of contents)
2) I'm going to tell you. (Subject in detail)
3) I'm going to tell you what I told you. (Final summary)

This specific teaching methodology (of repetition) is something that I experienced when I was in the Navy in the late 1980s. One of my friends at my church is 20 years older than me and he was also in the Navy. He confirmed that that's how they taught when he was in the Navy in the 1970s.

In the United States Navy, you have all types of people. Some are really bright and some are below average. I was probably average. We were all taught the same way.

Finally there are metrics that discuss how much you remember. When someone reads something, then they write it, it increases their retention over and above if they just read it. However if they are studying a book and they have no intention of writing it down or repeating it, then as an author perhaps you have to do it subtly yourself. I would imagine that this repetition technique would have to be used with great care to not bore your readers.

I hope you're doing well!
Best Regards,
Ed

Excerpts From An HSG Email To Dennis Gary Re ZMMQ Editing

‘‘‘Thank you for your efforts to add new "Clickable Jump-Down's", that help the reader navigate to other content on the same page. (these are #text.strings) On these you used, for simplicity, #1 #2 #3 etc: Good for to do this, a great help for the reader!! ‘‘‘

As in the case for the blue of any hyper link, readers need to know what they are getting into: In the case of newspaper articles: On Mem1, this is well done for Link President Renne & Other Greats, near bottom.

And I think (for full clarity seems to me that) similar needs to be added onto the Sarah ones near top: to the already blue: At the end of current blue, this s/b added => BOZEMAN DAILY CHRONICLE 17 December 17, 1948

& Similar done for the 2 other following Sara ones.

‘‘‘Here Is My "Long Explanation of "Why Long Blue" For Full Clarity in Hyperlinks. ‘‘‘
When a reader is getting to click a Hyper Link in ZMMQ (or Google), they need to know what they are "getting into": Their time is ‘‘‘limited‘‘‘, and their interest is‘‘‘ specialized‘‘‘:

They (like me, or you), are looking for clues, and will use all available information: The context in which the Blue is embedded, is of course considered, but this is of limited use, because that does not say what is there for sure:

And please also realize and remember that what Google shows, in their "Truncated Snippet Text Strings", is presented to the reader, with-out any benefit of the "Context" at all. But if you add full expanded information, into the Blue, then this likely will meet the reader's eyes, even in a Google Search Hit Results Text Strings.

For you as the Page Author, adding lots of "extra information to the Blue, normally takes hardly any added time, since the text is often a) already in the paragraph, or b) can with some quick imagination be added, or c) click drag from close by: d) Again imagination does the trick, to help the reader with their WebPage Navigation Decisions!!

‘‘‘Also: The reader, learns to "hover the mouse over the Blue", and look at the URL lower left in browser: '''
That info is combined with that of the blue, ((And they will learn to watch there, also for this => # plus added text.string: They learn to know if the # is near end of URL, this means a "jump-down" t ‘‘‘ just further-on-down the same page‘‘‘: Thus they are choosing
a) to go direct jump-down, or
b) just read / scroll down the page to, and see the #text.string content, along with all else on the page. :

‘‘‘I have seen Google's own recommendations to WebPage Authors: ‘‘‘
These say that (preferentially) the Page Title (at top) and the Blue Hyper Link text are used in deciding whether
A) to be adding these respective Results Lists,
B) AND often either of these texts (or part thereof) will SHOW up in the "Truncated Snippet Text Strings" , that Google Shows in the Results.
C) Thus these Title Words or the Blue Hyper Link Words are the words that the reader sees when scanning down, and making choices, what to click on: One of your pages vs Pages of some other site entirely.

‘‘‘Yes Yes Yes Yes I know: Long Blue Hyper Links are NOT the normal practice of a lot of WebPages: They often show in blue only one word!! ‘‘‘
I can't imagine why this is so common. I think this is just a cheap short cut, Perhaps the page authors are thinking they are saving their (or readers?) time and effort.

But this can hardly be true, for reasons I give above.

I do know if fact numerous times, that I have entirely missed several interesting links in Webages where the blue is a single word. I never would have found these, if I hadn't come back later and was reading very close.

‘‘‘As I said above: I notice your efforts to add new "Clickable Jump-Down's", that help the reader navigate to other content on the same page. (these are #text.strings) ‘‘‘

Good for to do this, a great help for the reader!!

‘‘‘However: On these you used, for simplicity, #1 #2 #3 etc: For reasons similar to the above, I going to ask you to "Go the extra mile." ‘‘‘

In a future web page where you add these #text.strings to the end of the URL in the Hyper Link: I'm urging you as you to be more advanced: Go the extra step of Quality, make these much longer, say 3-5 words, with of course no spaces.

‘‘‘WHY??? ‘‘‘ I've noticed that as I am a page author and am creating these "Clickable Jump-Down's" even i loose track what each of these "means": (Things get to be a jumble, as I struggling to get all the other words typed up: And so, If my page has say 4 or more of "Clickable Jump-Down's", I discover I need mental help, so I do not get mixed up: Thus I tend make these #textstrings, a phrase of several words but with no spaces, just so I can remember which goes where!! ((Also this helps me work faster, and with more confidence, I'm making the correct moves.)) :

‘‘‘But (as I've urged above) this has an added small pay-off for the page readers: ‘‘‘
They get even more advance notice of what Is there if (& when) they click: I agree that, normally the reader is hardly concerned, but If they are, ‘‘‘then more info is there to be used for choices and decisions in the flow!!

Portion of an email from Henry Gurr to Ryan George about the topic of collapsible items in both Microsoft Word and potentially this wiki.

C) You may remember (Please also place the entire below on ZMMQ Edit Guide, and email to me when done.)
1) About a year ago => Wanting the kind of word processor that had "Collapsed Chapters" feature, and if you click on certain chapter, that one would Expand The Chapter.
2) Also => Following my hints, you examined MSW, and concluded that such ability was NOT available
3) SIDE NOTE => Did I tell you (back at that time), that my son had exactly such a Word Processor in his ~year one: Macintosh? Thus such do exist, but probably too costly for our present purposes.
4) Up date: I have re-discovered, what made me think that MSW has the ability of 1) above:
5) Please examine the attached ScrnCapture, of my recent Sarah Vinke Biography (SVB) and in Center Column, see that
6) When a person types ... Chapter ... into the Find Box AND the document has chapters, then a Big Long List of all of them shows up!!! AND a click drag to make the Center Column, wider will show first the SINGLE page called "Table of Contents" which o/c has all the Full Titles, of those Chapters, for the whole SVB Book.
7) This is useful for a lot of purposes, and should be remembered.
8) Then Scroll on down and see listing in sequence . Chapter ##, and click will take you there, but some just have single word chapter and takes a guess what will goto?
9) Other mentions of . Chapter also show up, with the words surrounding.
10) The above 8) & 9), are useful for a lot of purposes, and should be remembered.

The above can be a partial alternative for the Word Processor "Collapsed Chapters" feature.

Please let me know what you think:

O'l Prof

EXAMPLES I HAPPEN TO NOTICE:

‘‘‘A) Here is one place on Mem1, where there is an especially good example of what I'm trying to urge: ‘‘‘
For an article on President Renne and other "great" “MSC Presidents", click here: Bozeman Chronicle Newspaper: Posted: Sunday, July 17, 2011 12:15 am

B) Here is one (of several places) on Mem1, where I would suggest much longer blue, but may take some imagination to augment the for more clarity for "what is there in the link ", and not clutter up the flow of what the Paragraph is trying to achieve.

C) I have mentioned Howard Dean several places above, specifically in Sarah Vinke on Quality. Howard Dean headed the freshman English course, ‘‘‘Oral and Written Communication‘‘‘, and authored its textbook , ‘‘‘Effective Communication‘‘‘ published by Prentice Hall and findable on http:Amazon.com -- my copy went by the wayside many years ago (later editions also bearing Ken Bryson's name as well as Dean's). Sounds like Pirsig may have been acquainted with it (interesting I brought this possibility up earlier, click http:Robert Pirsig).

Thanks for hearing me out on this!! All for the better of Quality, as allowed by our mutual "learning Curve".

Sincerely Henry

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