THANK YOU for your interest in helping us convert past Meridian editions to be posted in online format. Here’s how to do so:
- Comment below and claim the past edition you plan to tackle (to avoid duplicate work).
- Open the PDF version of that edition, copy the text from each article, and paste it into a Word (or other text editor) document.
– if an article is broken up into various columns and pages, please copy each column separately in order to avoid capturing unwanted data like page numbers, etc. - Clean up unwanted characters (which may appear as question marks in a box, for example).
- Clean up unwanted line breaks (it may help to copy the text to a very basic text editor, like Notepad on Windows, then stretch the window very wide to identify all line breaks).
- Send your prepared file to mra.org webmasters ShaunRoundy@ gmail.com at Gary Farris (rmru@ garyandeileen.com).
By helping convert past content, you will help the Meridian in the following ways:
- Easier to read on phones and smaller screens
- More attention for past articles
- Social sharing and commenting available
- Search past article content
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization to drive more traffic to mra.org)
- Increased exposure for MRA sponsors
- Greater visibility may encourage more article submissions
Converting all past editions is too big a job for a single person to accomplish, so thank you again for helping spread the load.