[projectaon] Re: Future issues on Project Aon
- From: "Lawrence Ritchie" <callmeinstead@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 18:48:11 +1300
Thanks for the replies guys.
So where to from here? I'd like to become familiar with the Pr Aon 'House
Style' and anything else that will help me with editing/proofing future LW
gamebooks.
Any recommendations & guidance much appreciated.
Cheers
Lawrence
On 03/03/2008, Simon Osborne <outspaced@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Lawrence
>
>
> Lawrence Ritchie wrote:
> > 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?).
>
>
> Project Aon has its own stylistic preferences, and so we are enforcing
> them
> uniformly upon the text, unlike the somewhat slapdash, slipshod efforts of
> Sparrow/Beaver/Red Fox. Each of those publishers seemed to have their own
> individual house-style, though none of them ever seemed to enforce it
> consistently.
>
> Since the books can be re-released on the website at any time if there are
> enough things to fix, we actually work on "all" books at once--that is to
> say,
> if we make a particular stylistic decision in Book 18 that occurs several
> times
> in the preceding books, we usually go back and fix those at the same time.
> This
> means the source XML files are usually different to the current published
> version, often only in minor matters.
>
> As Jeff says, the published versions of Books 1-7 are pretty much
> "perfect"
> (AFAWK), aside from a couple of recent amendments to the XML. The XML
> files are
> held in an SVN directory, allowing multiple editors to work on the books
> simultaneously. This has been set up for less than a year, but it has
> already
> proved to be most useful and has helped speed the work of editing up
> exponentially. The serial comma still needs to be enforced more
> stringently
> across the books, though.
>
> And yes, it has been a MAMMOTH task so far. ;-)
>
> (And surely, a bit of editorial-blasphemy can be considered de rigueur for
> an
> upstart voluntary group like Project Aon!)
>
>
> --
> Simon Osborne
> Project Aon
>
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