editors: Enhancements suggestions for the fonts HOW-TO
Subject:
Re: [editors] Enhancements suggestions for the fonts HOW-TO
From:
Martin Wheeler ####@####.####
Date:
13 Feb 2007 13:42:00 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0702131329130.7045@chaucer.startext.demon.co.uk>
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Machtelt Garrels wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
>
> > Here's my suggestion to enhance the fonts HOW-TO
> > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO/fix.html) - here it is:
> > http://www.osresources.com/3_13_en.html
. . .
> Did you try contacting the author? We can not change the content just
> like that, you know.
And yet we *should* be able to.
(Or rather, trusted and authorized editors ought to be able to.)
We have the technology; why are we slow in implementing it?
I suggest that all genuinely free texts be placed in a common area where
they may be edited at will by trusted editors. I also suggest that *all*
HOWTO writers be made aware of the fact that their writings may be changed
at any moment, without warning, in the context of a genuinely communal
effort to produce up-to-date, factually and grammatically accurate
documentation.
And if they don't like this idea, they shouldn't contribute in the first
place -- they should publish their stuff *privately* (after all, it's no
big deal to become your own e-publisher); rather than *communally*.
Just my 2p's worth.
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