[FM Discuss] CLI

[Andy Oram]

Now that we're in less of a rush, I agree somebody should copy-edit the book. I'm probably too close to the material now. Maybe on Sunday I can proof the Glossary, though; thanks so much for taking responsibility for it, Ed. I'm not sure I'll have time for the Glossary because I'm leaving on Monday for a week-long trip.

Andy

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From: Edward Cherlin <echerlin at gmail.com>
To: FM Discuss <discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net>
Sent: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:14:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [FM Discuss] CLI

I finished adding items to the CLI glossary. I deliberately did not
include terms specific to a particular editor or scripting language,
and well defined in that chapter. Please review my work.

I fixed some typos and other glitches, and noticed that the whole book
could use a good copy-editing. It is definitely not as clean as the
work we did on Circumvention. There are some inconsistent points of
style. I don't think I know what they all should be, so I am asking
for someone who knows the style to review them. Watch out for spaces
at the very beginning of paragraphs. They are an artifact of the
software.

When we come back to this book, I can see several places where we can
improve the presentation, and a number of other commands for possible
inclusion.

I would do more, but I have two other pressing projects on the OLPC XS
school server and on teaching math in Turtle Art through discovery
rather than lessons. I sent my iconized no-text TA tiles to Walter
Bender, and hope to make them publicly available soon.

The chat on the Web site is out. We didn't get anywhere near enough
chat during the CLI sprint and its followup, compared with talking
face-to-face in an onsite sprint. We didn't have the oversight I
thought we needed on getting chapters done and reviewed. When I left
off tonight, some of the file status selections seemed to be
inconsistent.

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