Law of Diminishing Returns
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mjperson and I have had this slow-moving project of making actual books for the Oath logs and add-ons. We stuffed them into appropriate formatting, and read through them and corrected all the typos and rogue commas and this and that, and then sent them off to lulu.com to turn into books. And they sent us books.
Which were ridiculously full of typos and rogue commas and creepy "the"s (that's a technical term, for the three letters "the" being non-italicized in the middle of an italic word or paragraph. These are caused by a too-clever-for-our-own-good attempt to turn "the Hippocrates" into "the Hippocrates" without changing all other instances of (the person, not the ship) Hippocrates. You can see how that might have gone horribly awry....).
So we spent forever checking them with a red pen, and putting all our corrections back into the documents, and sent them to be turned into books again, which arrived today.
Which are... well, not *ridiculously* full of typos and mistakes, but... let's just say there were probably a thousand weird mistakes in the first proof, and we might have caught 90% of them. But there's at least one topquote with creepy "the"s in it. Hopefully, if we can fix 90% of *these*, then there should be enough that I can't just look for mistakes and find them.
(edited because wow, look at me not able to do powers of ten!)
mjperson and I have had this slow-moving project of making actual books for the Oath logs and add-ons. We stuffed them into appropriate formatting, and read through them and corrected all the typos and rogue commas and this and that, and then sent them off to lulu.com to turn into books. And they sent us books.Which were ridiculously full of typos and rogue commas and creepy "the"s (that's a technical term, for the three letters "the" being non-italicized in the middle of an italic word or paragraph. These are caused by a too-clever-for-our-own-good attempt to turn "the Hippocrates" into "the Hippocrates" without changing all other instances of (the person, not the ship) Hippocrates. You can see how that might have gone horribly awry....).
So we spent forever checking them with a red pen, and putting all our corrections back into the documents, and sent them to be turned into books again, which arrived today.
Which are... well, not *ridiculously* full of typos and mistakes, but... let's just say there were probably a thousand weird mistakes in the first proof, and we might have caught 90% of them. But there's at least one topquote with creepy "the"s in it. Hopefully, if we can fix 90% of *these*, then there should be enough that I can't just look for mistakes and find them.
(edited because wow, look at me not able to do powers of ten!)
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Date: 2008-04-23 06:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-24 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-25 03:04 pm (UTC)Dammit
Date: 2008-04-25 03:04 pm (UTC)Re: Dammit
Date: 2008-04-25 03:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-25 08:13 pm (UTC)I guess I should've realized I'm overscheduled.
but you did!
Date: 2008-04-25 08:27 pm (UTC)Re: but you did!
Date: 2008-04-28 04:40 am (UTC)