Laren,


I believe you must edit your startup.mar file when Guide is *not* running,
then save it, then run Guide (I believe Guide saves his startup.mar when it
exits, then overwriting the changes you made manually).


Laurent Zimmermann
http://users.skynet.be/zmn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Laren Dart" <sandman@...>
To: <guide-user@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [guide-user] Editing captions


> Hi Bill,
>
> I just can't seem to get this to work, I'm probably doing it wrong. I edit
> the lines, save startup.mar, exit Guide, re-open Guide, but the change
> isn't there. As an example, I open Babylon01.mar, make some changes, go
> into startup.mar, edit the 1 to 2, save startup.mar, but it doesn't seem
to
> take.
>
> Being 76 and operating with a brain that's approaching 94 isn't easy!
>;->
>
> Larry
>
> At 04:54 PM 9/21/03 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi Larry,
> >
> > Hmmm... you've got a point: better editing capabilities
> >wouldn't be a bad idea here. Best I can suggest right away
> >is to do as you thought: edit 'em where they're saved, which
> >is in 'startup.mar'. Look in that file, and (if you've got
> >some caption text already created) you'll see lines such as
> >
> >36 caption This is the first line of the caption.
> >36 caption Here's another caption line.
> >36 caption The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
> >
> > You can then add/remove/modify such lines to get the caption
> >you want.
> >
> >-- Bill
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