Roger Hui wrote:
|The wrong symbol for floor was in the original paper
|and is noted in the Errata section.

Errata/Corrigenda sections were obviously necessary in print
publications because you can't change the printed page, but, for pete's
sake, we're now in an online world, and distributable documents should
have the correct versions within them.  Why promulgate errors??  There's
enough of that on the Internet already!  For repristinators who want to
recreate the original error-filled document for themselves, reverse the
print-world process and have an "Errors Corrected" section (containing
the print errors) at the end.  (Editions of old music do this all the
time: misprints, etc., are noted in footnotes or in a separate section,
while the corrected performing edition is the main content.)  If deemed
necessary, insert a preliminary note indicating that errors have been
corrected in this document and that they have been noted at the end (or
in footnotes or whatever).

Harvey
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