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Mokie
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Okay. Here's what I want to do.<P>I want to have a short blurb, a caption not unlike those appearing under "Bruno the Bandit" daily (okay, a little longer) beneath each of my comics.<P>I wrote to Mr. McDonald and he responded nicely telling me what he did (a file named captions.txt in his data folder, listing imagefilename-space-caption for all of his comics)...but that's not working for my comic.<P>I tried adding ***todays_caption*** (it's listed in the source code of the taglossary, so I thought it worth a shot), but that didn't work either.<P>Yes, I've updated. I updated all of the files, just in case. No go.<P>So, is there some mysterious tag that will pull captions from a captions.txt and put it on the page? Is there another way to do this?<P>The URL, as always, is <A HREF="http://godeatgod.keenspace.com" TARGET=_blank>http://godeatgod.keenspace.com</A> - and thanks! <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><p>[This message has been edited by mokie (edited 07-04-2001).]

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Post by Psiogen »

This *should* work, but don't blame me if I'm imagining it all:
Just name your comics YYYYMMDDa.gif and write the blurbs in text files called YYYYMMDDb.html. The blurb will be insterted under the comic, along with any html and/or autokeen tags you may wish to put in the file.<P>------------------
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It does work. <IMG SRC="http://www.keenspace.com/forums/smile.gif"><P>And thus we prove that smoking crack does impair one's ability to understand simple instructions. Damnit! I've got to go flush my stash....

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