editors: Enhancements suggestions for the fonts HOW-TO
Subject:
Re: [editors] Enhancements suggestions for the fonts HOW-TO
From:
"Chris Neale" ####@####.####
Date:
18 Feb 2007 14:10:09 -0000
Message-Id: <983b11bd0702180610i13fc5834y7ae47d1f5013a792@mail.gmail.com>
I entirely agree. What's the process for editing, copy-editing and
proofreading within TLDP? I don't think that these activities which can
realistically be done by the author alone.
Can edits and corrections be made to documents using CVS?
Thanks,
Chris
On 13/02/07, Martin Wheeler ####@####.#### wrote:
>
> 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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