Re: proof-reading

[David Bobroff]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:06, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> address@hidden writes:
> > I just went through sections 1 through 1.3 and offer these corrections. 
> > If there is a better way for me to do this please tell me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> I've applied them. The format that I prefer is "diff -u", ie. edit the file,
> and do
> 
>      diff -u old-file new-file 
> 
> If you do it like this, I can put the fixes in directly.

Ah, I thought there had to be a clever way around this.  I just tried it
out on a test file.  Let me make sure I've got it:

Copy (for safety) the file to be edited.

Edit and save to a new file.

diff -u old-file new-file > diffs-file

Send diffs-file

Have I got it? Should I send them to the list or just to you?  And it is
the *.itely files, correct?


> > [NB Section titles work like titles.  In English all words are
> > capitalized except for "unimportant" words like "the," "a," "an," "and,"
> > "this" unless they are the first word, of course. ]
> > 
> 
> I know about the convention, but I think is American and not English.

I almost said "American English" as I thought I remembered seeing it
different in British publications.

> However, I also think that it is a poor style, which should go away.

Well, I grew up with it and am used to it.  German capitalizes all the
nouns which strikes *me* as odd.

As for editing, now that I've got an easier way to do it maybe I'll get
more of it done.  I'm glad to finally contribute something to LilyPond.

-David