[FM Discuss] CLI

[TJB]

Ed, Andy and Adam, I will start editing the manual for format and
consistency.  With about 40 chapters, it may take up to a week, I
reckon.  I'll start Sunday.

Tom Boyle


On 4/18/2009 6:00 AM, Andy Oram wrote:
> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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.
>