Story proofing guide.

First, read the Story Formatting guide, so you know what
the output has to look like. Those first three lines
are very important, they control how the menu will
present the story.

Second, read the Writing Guide. That tells you about
spelling, grammar and punctuation. If the author is
mis-spelling on purpose, for effect, that's fine.
And don't try to change their writing style. But
accidentally mis-spelled words, doubled words (the the
for example) and the worst excesses of punctuation abuse
should be corrected. Most authors use US spelling,
but if someone wants to use Australian, British, or
Canadian, that's fine.

It also tells you about what I won't accept on the
site. 

Sometimes a story can be converted from unaccceptable 
to acceptable by changing the words "15 year old" to
"teenager". 


Mechanics

FTP connect to diana.announce.com as user "lblibrary"
with password "fredaplen". Download a story or stories
that you're going to work on, and rename it from
storyname.txt to storyname.abc (use your initials
instead of .abc). That tells the other people doing
the same thing, that you've checked the story out
for proofing, so they don't proof the same story.

When you've got it all nice and lovely, upload it 
back to the same place, into the "pub" directory.
Once per hour, Sandra the Valkyrie will look at 
what's there, and make index.htm, using those
first three lines in the file, and the story will
be available on the web site. You can check out how
it looks, and if it looks wrong, you can try again.
When it's all done, delete the story from where you
downloaded it, so it's only in place in the "pub" 
directory. She does this at 23 minutes past the
hour, every hour.

Any stories you're doubtful about, on grounds of
suitability, put in the "unsure" directory, I'll
make a decision about them.

Any that you find you can't convert (weird format),
just rename it back to .txt and try another one.
Eventually, either someone will be able to read it,
or no-one will.