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<title>Guide to the on-line logbooks</title>
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<H1>How to read the RAS logbooks</h1>
<P>The RAS logbook, as processed by John Crocker, allows for easy
identification of pages and other typographical information not easily
expressed in electronic format.
<p> The <a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/RAS/RAS/logbook1.rtf">RTF version</a>
of the logbook is much better than any <a href="http://astro.uchicago.edu/home/web/RAS/RAS/logbook1.html">HTML
</a> interpretation. It contains actual page breaks as they exist in the
logbook.
<p> It's really long -- approximately 150KB in length. I do not know if
we plan on splitting it up.
<p>Specifically, John used the following
notations:
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<LI> <b>**</b> double asterisk indicates a page, with the number of the page
after the symbol. The page numbers are derived from the physical
numbering either on the loose-leaf (1952-1964) or bound (1964-current) logbooks.
<LI> <b>{Jupiter}</b> All editor comments or uncomphrensible words are enclosed in
squiggly brackets. RAS members are encouraged to read the passages and
decipher them yourself. If a planetary symbol has been used, the
english word will be enclosed in squiggly brackets, until HTML and RTF has a way
of displaying them.
<LI> <b>[alpha]</b> Greek symbols are displayed in the RTF version, but
the HTML version they are in square brackets.
<LI> <b>Underlining</b> is physically in the logbooks. It is not
editorial.
<LI> Same with <b>parentheses</b>.
<LI> Other people have written comments, etc. in the logbook not
attributable to the primary author. John has left these in, with the
glaring exception of one smart-alec commentator. It is difficult to
discern between comments and actual entries, but we have no easy way of
handling this.
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