Re: Making the Transition

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren wrote:
> You know, this _is_ available as a PDF and also a "live" XyWrite
> document, at:
>  http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/XPL.ZIP
> I renamed it the "XyWrite Programming Language User?s Guide",


And an enormously valuable tool it is.

> Maybe I'll make a PDF of Transition someday...


Sorry to have got your hopes up, but as I say, I only had that
briefly, if at all. And the booklet I do have doesn't appear to be
worth much, by itself.


I still cannot believe SOMEONE, somewhere, doesn't have the original
files of those books.


It has also been borne in upon me that in asking for "proofreading" I
was using a very ambiguous term. What I meant was reading one document
against the other, character for character, to be sure they matched.
That's what it meant when I started in publishing (46 years ago next
month), but what it hardly ever means now. ("Follow copy--out the
window" was the catchphrase.) Nowadays, "proofreading" means light
copy editing, or what I sometimes call manuscript proofreading:
reading a document cold (with nothing to compare it to), checking for
typos and glaring errors in punctuation, capitalization, and grammar.
But when a document has been OCR'd, it's as if it had been retyped,
and it needs to be read against the original.


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Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx