Amen, sister! Jim
Mobile email from my iPhone > On Feb 1, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Jerry via Texascavers > <texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > Posted for Mimi Jasek: > > To All Current and Future Editors and Proofreaders of the Texas Caver: > > We really do have one of the finest caving magazines in the United States, > but I would like to try to make you aware of something that needs to be put > back on the Contents Page to make it complete, and to correct an error that > is being perpetuated. In the past this information has been either there or > on the combined Publication Data/Contents Page. There is plenty of room to > add a text box above the word Contents with this information, or if it > belongs on the Publication Data page, put it there. I would suggest checking > with Logan McNatt as to correct placement. > > The Texas Caver > January - March, 2015 > Volume 61, Issue 1 > > I put this in the format that would be for the first issue of 2015. In many > past issues, also, rather than Vol and Issue being put on the cover, it was > simply the months involved. > > Correction that needs to be fixed: The Volume number is for a whole year! > DO NOT increase this number with the isssue number increasement! Please see > the wonderful spread sheet provided by Jerry Atkinson in his 11/13/14 post > about the Texas Caver Publication List. If you have never worked on a > magazine before, and have never paid attention to this, then this mistake can > be understandable. But if we are still sending out issues to libraries and > other important cave owner entities, this information matters. For all who > may still get their hard copies bound into yearly volumes, this also matters. > In 2014, the TC went from Vol 60 all the way to Vol 63, yet the whole year > is Volume 60. > > To many who see this post, this request will seem frivolous and totally > unimportant. But as someone who worked on the TC for untold years alongside > James Jasek to edit, type, proofread, correct, print, collate, address and > mail for any number of editors, besides working in a bookbinding company, > this information really matters. Design is completely individual as to the > editor of any magazine, but critical publication data is not, and is one of > those things - like proper page numbers for the articles within - that should > be carried forward from issue to issue for proper continuity. > > Sincerely, and with the best of nerdy, proofreading intentions, > > Mimi Jasek > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
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