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CD question

Oct 10, 2009 10:34

Thanks for your answers, those who responded to my previous question. I am at home now, on my computer, old as it is, I'm used to it. (I borrowed a nifty littke EEE but it was impossible to type on without constant error ( Read more... )

coronets and steel, vidanric, crown duel, banner of the damned

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peanut13171 October 11 2009, 03:13:52 UTC

Congratulations! That's great news. You can sign me up for a coupla chapters, too.

sartorias October 11 2009, 17:54:43 UTC

Thanks! I'm hoping for a way around it.

shadowsinfire October 11 2009, 03:42:22 UTC

Congrats on the go-ahead! Which one is Coronets and Steel?

sartorias October 11 2009, 17:56:38 UTC

Ruritanian one.

shadowsinfire October 11 2009, 23:58:34 UTC

Cool.

thistleingrey October 11 2009, 04:47:52 UTC

One thing that tends to help with multiple-person typing jobs (speaking as someone who has post-processed the results of such outsourced contract jobs a few times, professionally, whee!) is to have two or three people type the same content. If there's enough of us (and I'm willing to contribute some time as well--I go about 90 WPM), then we could probably manage two people for most/all of the book. Then someone "runs a diff"--compares the results against each other, and looks for disparities; it is unusual statistically for 2+ typists to make exactly the same errors if they're moderately careful typists. And then, ideally, someone reads the way a proofreader would, to catch things that typists might indeed fudge (period for a comma, e.g., on either Qwerty or Dvorak layouts ( ... )

thistleingrey October 11 2009, 04:49:02 UTC

That is, compares the results with computer aid. :P "diff" is actually a unix program that flags every single difference, including spaces; there are similar programs with easier-to-use interfaces. Anyhow.

sartorias October 11 2009, 17:56:18 UTC

That is really an imposition on the generosity of friends--I think I need to find a way around it, or just retype it all myself. But thanks!

thistleingrey October 11 2009, 04:52:33 UTC

Apparently I'm not reading carefully enough because I missed the Coronets and Steel part the first time. Yay! That is awesome. So is the news about Banner (!), but I did enjoy the draft of C&S you posted a while ago.

sartorias October 11 2009, 17:55:33 UTC

Thanks!

jeidai October 12 2009, 05:55:24 UTC

I'd definitely be willing to give you the file I used to make the CD book! But it's an Adobe InDesign file, I don't know what format or program you want the text in, and how easy or hard it would be to convert it. :/ I hate to think of you typing up the whole book again. That was one option I was considering myself, before I got access to an OCR scanner (which at times wasn't good because it was a quick scan, but it got the job done), and I wasn't looking forward to it at all.

sartorias October 12 2009, 12:57:31 UTC

I would love it. If one can "select all" and "copy" then the file could be dumped into an rtf. file. I hope. It would be perfect, because I could work with that, and make one more pass on the little errors.

jeidai October 15 2009, 00:21:28 UTC

All right, I managed to get an rtf file! Should I send it to the e-mail that I got the corrections from? At gmail?

sartorias October 15 2009, 02:18:49 UTC

You are TOTALLY AWESOME!!!!!

Yes--sartorias at gmail dot com.

Thank you!