[projectaon] Re: Future issues on Project Aon
- From: Jeff Dougan <jffdougan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:20:01 -0600
Lawrence Ritchie wrote:
Greetings fellow Kai lords (and yes, in this case it's Kai lords and not
Kai Lords)
My name is Lawrence Ritchie (aka Stealth Fire).
I was a frequent poster and contributor to ye olde Kaiwisdom mailing
list, and I'm back with a vengeance ... totally rejuvenated and ecstatic
about putting in my two gold crowns for future online publications.
Although I wasn't ever a member of the kaiwisdom list, welcome aboard!
Just looking at the proposed (?) changes made to Dawn of the Dragons, I
will say this: some of the corrections are more a matter of stylistic
preference than error corrections per se. I'm just wondering what house
style, if any, everyone agrees on. Without bantering on about it there
is no doubt in my mind that Red Fox (and the others) would have adhered
to its own particular house style, so the likes of removing hyphens and
adding full-stops between 'ie' and the like -- besides being considered
blashphemic by some -- would ipsofacto, for matters of consistency, mean
the same corrections be applied to the rest of the books (a potentially
mammoth task?).
Thoughts on the above:
- We make careful distinction between real errata (mistakes that are
present in the original text) and editorial corrections that we've made.
- For the later, there's a Project Aon Manual of Style that's buried
somewhere on the website. We've applied a bunch of such corrections to
all the books, including needing to revisit some books several times. We
-think- that books 1-5 are "perfect" now.
JD
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