On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 03:54 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > >> On another topic, what is the SOP for submitting copyediting of the > >> User's Guide (issue 29679)? Both the original Chapter 1 (from 11 March; > >> grsingleton) and its edited version (29 March; jondoe) contained > >> numerous errors, even though this chapter is only one-page long (four > >> short paragraphs). > >> > >> > > > > Numerous errors? I think that we have a different view of how to > > construct a document. So I kept some of mine and some of yours and ... > > Thanks. > > > > I'll say... > > If not "numerous," I'd venture to state that its error rate was rather > high, considering that (a) the Overview was only one measly page in > length and (b) its errors were highly obvious--so much so that (i) they > shouldn't have been there in the first place and (ii) shouldn't have > lingered these past 3+ months w/o correction. Besides, my command of > English is at least a tad better. :-) > > I'm currently into Chapter 2. However, I'll leave reporting its > copyediting for another time. [Besides, it's late, and I have other fish > to fry.] But, I'll say for now that one of its tables (pp. 5-6) had > horribly misaligned, overlapping entries. And the paragraph before it > has both 12pt and 10pt font sizes, for some reason or another. There are > more errors, but they're more of the proofreading variety. I'm using XP > Pro, in case we're using differing OSs.
I am using a Linux varient. Remember that we have slightly different views on what is an error. What you call an error, I call a style of writing. So lets keep the use of error to a minimum. For example, spelling is either en_GB or en_CA. And do you think you could fix your Reply-to so it doesn't break threading in the list? Do make sure that you have the most recent version of any chapter. Also check the page style in the section as it may be depending on what is specified in the master. I think I set each up but ... -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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