Amazing.
The new manuals showed up today. We spent some time proofing the drafts, but I knew that the minute I got my hands on the finished copy I would find an error right away. It's just how life works.
So I grabbed a book, opened up, and, what do you know, in the very first paragraph of the very first section (the Forward) there is a sentence with not one, but two glaring typos! Aaaaagh!
Fortunately it gets better. I haven't found any other problems yet. I figure it's just the law of maximum screwage. At least no pages are upside-down or anything. That was my larger fear :)
We'll have a page to order the books soon.
End rant.
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 Aug 30 2000, 7:17 am
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So I grabbed a book, opened up, and, what do you know, in the very first paragraph of the very first section (the Forward) there is a sentence with not one, but two glaring typos! Aaaaagh! Was one of them "Forward" instead of "Foreword"? (Sorry, I know that was jerkish but I couldn't resist. :) My condolences. But actually, this is a *good* thing, because it just enhances the collector's value of the first edition! | |
On 8/30/00 12:54 pm Guy T. wrote:
Was one of them "Forward" instead of "Foreword"? (Sorry, I know that was jerkish but I couldn't resist. :) No it wasn't. Now there are three glaring errors. I think I'll go kill myself now. My condolences. But actually, this is a *good* thing, because it just enhances the collector's value of the first edition! That's one way to look at it! As you can tell, me is a Englitch mayjor. | |
Was one of them "Forward" instead of "Foreword"? (Sorry, I know that was jerkish but I couldn't resist. :) Oof... now I really do feel jerkish. But on the bright side, it's perfectly appropriate; you have to go Forward into the BYOND! Your readers will probably see it exactly that way. | |
On 8/30/00 1:40 pm Guy T. wrote:
But on the bright side, it's perfectly appropriate; you have to go Forward into the BYOND! Your readers will probably see it exactly that way. Maybe people will assume we just don't know how to spell. I mean we mess up "beyond" about a million times. The forward/foreword fiasco is minor compared to that. [edited -- heh, I misspelled foreword!] | |
Very glad to hear the books are here! My day job has been in technical publications for most of a decade now, and I can say with authority that your experience is not Murphy's Law, it is a physical law of the universe.
Never in history has an author received the final too-late-to-fix version of a book without discovering a glaring error within 2 seconds. Just hasn't happened.
A little tip though that you might consider for future versions of the documentation to catch major errors (not typos though): Do a full review of the draft holding it upside down.
Your eyes will be opened to all sorts of things that we normally gloss over.