When setting up a personal gopher space,
you might run into trouble and questions – at least I did.

# gophermaps

The important thing to know is the file "gophermap": The content
in this file will be rendered according to the special gopher syntax;
the "gophernicus" gopher server distributes a file called "README.gophermap",
which explains all the possibilities much better than I could.

Available over gopher at: gopher://gopher.meulie.net/1/docs/

## Tabs

The most important thing about gophermaps is that the items need to
be separated by single TABs. Not spaces, not multiple TABs, but one single TAB.
So don’t even try to “align the times nicely” in the gophermap, because
it will not work properly when displayed in the gopher clients.

## Multiple gophermaps.

You may want to have multiple gophermaps for multiple topics;
for example, I wanted to have a sub-page for interesting links.

If you create multiple gophermaps in one directory, e.g. "links.gophermap",
"index.gophermap", they will all be concatenated and then transferred to the
server – that is not what I wanted.

So the best way to achive the subpage for Links is:

- Create a folder "links"
- Put the gophermap into the folder
- (Optional) put a gophertag into the folder, e.g.
  echo "Interesting Links" > links/gophertag

The gophertag indicates how the folder will be called in the
gopher menu.

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Don’t forget: If you want to know how something is done in Gopher,
you can always ask your gopher client to look at the source.

If you have any questions, write to: liron@tilde.team