Yeah, and everyone has problems... Check out this guy's experience... http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/06/15/what-is-it-like-to-write-a-technical-book/
Cheers, Vern Michael Kerney wrote: > Sorry, slightly off-topic, but this reminded me of certain recent > book-related issues, and how the editing can always get worse. > > http://ruthholladay.com/index.php?blog=1&title=editing_off_shore_style&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 > > <http://ruthholladay.com/index.php?blog=1&title=editing_off_shore_style&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1> > > Excerpt: > > "Several years ago, I worked for Macmillan Publishing. They outsourced a > whole series of computer-related titles to an Indian firm that would > write and tech edit the books and then we here in the states would > copyedit them. I was one of the copy editors for this project. > > "On page 5 of the first book I was editing, I came across this sentence > and had a feeling it was going to be downhill from there: 'Click Print > to accomplish printer lactation.'" > > > (Disclaimer: this kind of outsourcing may be one of the reasons my > little brother no longer works for IDG in Indy.) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Fwlug mailing list > [email protected] > http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org
