[FM Discuss] CLI

[adam hyde]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 04:29 -0400, TJB wrote:

> 
> As I was working my way through this excellent publication, I couldn't
> help but visualize a youngster going through it and applying the
> examples it contains.  This book has the opportunity to prime the next
> generation of power users.  Way to go!
> 

wooohooo!



> Tom
> 
> 
> On 4/30/2009 12:37 PM, Andy Oram wrote:
> > Thanks for taking on this rather tedious work. We don't want to burden authors by asking them to follow a laundry list of conventions while they're writing (and they'd probably ignore conventions anyway), so doing it at the end is probably easiest, as you're doing.
> > 
> > Andy
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: TJB <tjb.olpc at gmail.com>
> > To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> > Sent: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
> > Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] CLI
> > 
> > This manual is another very clean one.  Very, very few typos, but
> > since it was written by various authors, it is a worthwhile exercise
> > for me to "standardize" the text: examples of commands in code format
> > ("<code>...</code>"); filenames and directory names in italics;
> > keyboard keys in bold; double quote marks instead of apostrophes in
> > text (not in examples!); etc., i.e., copy-editing as Andy Oram
> > suggested a while ago.
> > 
> > It's taking me longer than I expected, but I will finish standardizing
> > it. I have finished 24 of 44 chapters so far.
> > 
> > Marcelo, I don't want to hold you up on your Spanish translation
> > effort.  The vast majority of the changes I'm making are in format,
> > not content.  If you subscribe to get changes to the manual, you will
> > see my changes if you are running ahead of me.  I am working the
> > chapters in sequence.
> > 
> > Tom
> > 
> > 
> >  On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 01:33 -0400, TJB wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>>
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