Post by washi on Apr 10, 2015 14:31:31 GMT
The placemark attached to this post shows the place where Matsuo Bashō, the world famous Japanese poet, died. (He was being cared for at the temple west of the placemark, and that place was in one of the temple buildings at that time.) A haiku festival is held every year at the temple on the anniversary of his death.
When I first made the placemark, it was an example used to explain in the Japanese language how to construct a placemark, how to construct and submit a post to the older old GEC, and more importantly, a work-around I had discovered for posting Japanese kanji and kana (the symbols used in the Japanese writing system). The pre-2011 system was altered to allow Unicode input some time before I was invited to do a presentation to a Japanese audience in November of that year. I dusted off the old post, and made it the topic of my breakout session, minus, of course, the work-around. The attached placemark (a somewhat elaborated version of the example placemark in the post) contained a link to the how-to post.
I've never seen any evidence that anyone ever learned anything from my effort, so I think it is pointless to try to reconstruct the post in the new GEC, but I do want to take the opportunity to remove the link from the placemark in the layer. I'm a great fan of Bashō, so I'm posting the edited placemark here, just because I like it.
There are three things in all that obsolete rubbish that are worth preserving. The first is a link to a Rich Text Guide by seer, which is a helpful guide to much of the HTML coding that is used to format the balloons for placemarks, etc. The other two are .pdf reference sheets I made of seer's guide, one in English, the other in Japanese. You can download them from Page 4 of my Links File.
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