April 10, 2009
From DPCanadaWiki
Volume 2, Issue #35--April 10, 2009
(Full listing of previous issues is available at DPC Newsletters)
Guidelines Diffs between DPC & DP-Int/US
Did you ever notice that sometimes when things appear to be taking longer than expected to occur, such as Simon's promised listing of differences between DPC & DP-Int Proofing and Formatting Guidelines, that "something" is up? Well, Simon is extending an invitation to DPC members and will be doing the same for DP-Int members: that we synchronize our Guidelines not just adopt theirs--after all, we are a UTF-8 site so there will have to be a few minor differences.
Anyway, read through the following summary that Simon has provided and, please, let him know your thoughts in the forums that he is setting up.
Summary of situation re Guideline Differences:
by Simple Simon
As you'll recall, some time ago I promised to prepare a summary of the differences in Guidelines between DPC and DP-INT. The intent, of course, was primarily to assist new DPC members "coming over" from DP-INT, so that they could work effectively here without getting confused with the way they're used to working.
We have held an extensive series of discussions in our forums about how our DPC Guidelines should be different--and the results have been somewhat surprising. Of course, we talked at great length about what to do about ellipses, about character encoding, and a number of other issues that have been perennial controversies at DP-INT. We reached some conclusions, and announced some positions as we made our revised Proofing Guidelines (November 2008) and Formatting Guidelines (February 2009) official.
The surprise is that, essentially, our Proofing Guidelines are only slightly different in content from DP-INT, though they are organized in a way we feel is more logical. In general, the differences all tend to be in one direction.
We have concluded that, when all else is neutral,"match the scan"--not just in LOTE projects, but in all cases. This is certainly where we came out on ellipses, for example.
And, our Formatting Guidelines are almost identical to DP-INT's "version 2.0".
But, two other events have occurred that impinge on this situation:
1. DP-INT has been reviewing their own Guidelines in the same time-frame that we have, and have now announced their "version 2.0" Guidelines. Interestingly, their revisions have tended in the same direction as we did, so some convergence has already occurred.
2. DPC has decided to "synch up" with DP-INT site code later this year. As a result, the functionality of our site (the way it works--its code, if you like) will move much closer to theirs. If DP-INT also adopts UTF-8 character encoding, which is a definite possibility, the two sites will be even closer.
So, inevitably, our Guidelines will converge even more. There is even some word that they might move to a Wiki format for the Guidelines, just as we decided to do.
In my opinion, it would be ideal if both sites could make a few accomodations, and then we'd adopt exactly the same Guidelines.
Until DP-INT goes UTF-8, there will need to be some differences caused by that encoding difference. But it's minor.
So, rather than listing, and possibly reinforcing, the differences between our sites, I'm asking everyone, and particularly the PFs, Moderators and more experienced proofers and formatters, to consider how we can move the two sets of Guidelines closer together. Let's deal with content, not the style of organization.
I'll start a forum thread called "Synchronizing DP Guidelines", under "Documentation Suggestions", and post an initial explanation of the purpose, both at DPC and at DP-INT. Everybody chime in, for a period of, say, 2 months--to mid-June. Then we'll try to achieve agreement between the sites to adopt the same Guidelines.
Although DP-INT is very busy right now, with elections for the Board, I'll try to get the Powers That Be over there to sign on to this process, and keep you all posted.
This idea will be repeated in "Simon's Soapbox"--I'll also PM some of the DPC members who have been most instrumental in modernizing our Guidelines, to recuit their help in this matter. And I'll put an announcement about this on all the site's Round pages.
Editorial
Server and site problems--Simple Simon advises that any remaining problems on-site are set aside now until the "synch-up" (unless something really major rears its ugly head). If you see something that you believe requires handling before the summer, please send him a PM.
Checklists--Simon has started with the PPing basic checklist for simple projects. Last issue he gave checklists for startup and text version; in this issue he provides a HTML version. Any and all comments and/or questions from PPers are requested and welcome. Anyone else can comment as well. Send any questions or comments to Simple Simon.
The various checklists that are being produced will be located on a wikipage. There should be something in place for the next issue. We'll keep the checklists together in the same area as the full FAQs and full guidelines, but not on the same page(s) as the guidelines.
More projects needed--Thank you to the CPers and PMs who have provided more projects and/or have voluteered to PM. We really appreciate your hard work. Of course, more will always be needed.
Proofing/Formatting combined guidelines--There will be a significant delay in publishing this combined guidelines document. Simon has been caught up in the site code project (as well as his campaign on DP-Int) … so he's been a bit busy. ;)
ÜberProjects--see the updates below.
Check out the list of "possible future articles" at the end of the newsletter--are you interested in contributing or do you know of someone who could, or would like to, contribute, we'd love to have your article and/or thoughts. And you can do so anonymouslyAnd you can do so anonymously if you choose. It doesn't have to be long: a sentence or two, a short paragraph or two, 500 words or more if you really like to "talk"; send a PM to Quill.
Simon Says...
Here is part 2 of my article in the last issue, covering a simple checklist for beginner PPers. Today focuses on the HTML version.
1. load the "copy" of the text version you saved at step 20 in the last issue, now called project.html, into guiguts
2. open the formatting snippets "palette" I've provided in NotePad--this contains handy snippets of code to help with styling (see below)
3. if you don't plan to include visible page numbers, skip to step 5
4. (a) open the HTML "palette", using the button at the bottom of the guiguts window.
(b) click on the Custom Page Labels button
(c) adjust the page numbers assigned to the images, selecting whether the pages have Roman or Arabic numbers, and "skipping" pages that have no visible image
(d) occasionally press Recalculate, and check how the numbers are lining up against the book
(e) when you're satisfied, click Use These Values
5. select "Keep UTF-8 Chars" and "Convert Fractions", then click Autogenerate HTML--wait till it settles down
6. clean up the "front matter" of the book (title page, dedication, copyright notice...), matching the appearance of the images, using the tools on the HTML Palette
7. create the Table of Contents (TOC) using a table (subject of part 3 of this checklist, coming soon)--you will move the segments of the table autogenerated , and the chapter names and page numbers from the rounds, into the table. Mark the TOC with a bookmark
8. create the Table of Illustrations (if any) the same way
9. work through the whole document, fixing the following items. Use your own styling preferences for size of headings etc.
(a) chapter headings and sub-headings, chapter numbers (if any)
(b) check that chapters start on the pages listed in the TOC, and that the name/labels attached to chapters match those in the TOC exactly
(c) shift page number tags to the best spot for them--usually only necessary around the beginning of chapters
(d) remove page number tags associated with empty pages, and the [Blank Page] markers if still there
(e) make sure that block quotations have been formatted with the proper divs
(f) check that any poetry has been indented to match the images--adjust the amount of indent if needed
(g) make sure footnote anchors match the footnote, then move footnotes to the end of the book, close up the paragraphs
(h) use blockquot divs to indent correspondence,announcements or other material that needs to be indented
10. style the list of footnotes to your preference (see the "Footnotes" section of the snippets)
11. style any illos using the "Illustrations" section of the snippets--see also part 4 of this checklist, coming soon
12. style any Index--headings and sub-headings to your preference. Insert a link for each item, delete the original page number, and insert it into the link, in 2 places, so the following item
Index item A, 123
becomes first
Index item A, <a href="#Page_3" class="indexlink">[3]</a>123
then
Index item A, <a href="#Page_123" class="indexlink">[123]</a>
...and if any items come up that I haven't mentioned, you selected the wrong book as your first PP project!!!
13. Now, you have to insert a "CSS section" at the top of your file. This will make all the tags you've been inserting work. For your first project, use the standard CSS file I've included here--it will handle most standard books.
14. Then, load your file into your favourite browser, and see how it looks--you'll probably see some weird things. Try to figure them out, fiddle with the settings in the tags you inserted and the heading settings you made, then re-view it. You might try looking at the file in other browsers, too.
Ask questions in the Forums, or of your PP Mentor. You'll probably find someone willing to look at your file and suggest improvements.
15. Now it's time to check that your file "works":
(a) click the "Link Checker" at the bottom of the HTML Palette--it will show you any broken links--usually they are illos you didn't use, or anchors that don't have a place to go. Don't worry about ANCHORS WITHOUT LINKS.
(b) click on HTML Tidy button on the HTML Pallette. Work your way through the errors it reports--clicking on the error line will take you to the location of the error in the file. In theory, it's possible to remove every error, but you'll find that some are unimportant--for example, the "nested span" error can be ignored. Eventually, you could get down to seeing just 2 lines beginning with the word Info: you're finished!
DO NOT LET HTML TIDY 'FIX' YOUR FILE--IT WILL DESTROY IT!!!
(c) in your browser, go to the W3C Markup Validation Service web page at http://validator.w3.org/#validate-by-upload
(d) browse to the location of your file, then click the "Check" button
(e) you'll get a report showing any remaining HTML errors--you have to eliminate every one--ask for help the first time you do this
AND do not be disconcerted if it says 1348 errors--usually there's really only a few, but they cause cascading error reports
...and now you're done--that was easy, let's do another.
Don’t forget: SAVE YOUR FILE FREQUENTLY
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Here is the "snippets" file:
<br /> to break a line
<br /> OR <p> </p> insert a blank line
  ; to insert a non-breaking space
[Editor note: there is no space between " " and ";"--however, I couldn't find another way to "code" the code without it disappearing.]
<span class="smcap"> </span> to change to small caps
<div class="blockquot"> </div> to insert a block quote
<span style="margin-left: 2em;"> </span><br /> to shift a portion of a line right by 2 em
<p style="margin-left: 1em;"> </p> to move the start of a paragraph 1 em right
<div class="right"> </div> to shift text to right margin
<hr style="width: 65%;" /> to insert a wide thought break
<hr style="width: 25%;" /> to insert a narrow thought break
Page Numbers:
<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_100" id="Page_100"></a></span> insert a page number plus anchor <span class="pagenum">[x]</span> insert a "naked" page number
Illustrations:
insert this following the [Illustration;...] block, change the variables width, height, and the illo name, move any caption that was in the Illustration marker below the illo code, and set it to <h4>...</h4>, then delete the [Illustration:...] block <div class="figcenter" style="width: 456px;"> <img src="images/0280.png" width="456" height="273" alt="logo" title="" /></div> <br />
Footnotes:
<a name="FNanchor_3" id="FNanchor_3"></a> insert a footnote anchor <a href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> <a name="Footnote_4" id="Footnote_4"></a> insert a footnote link <a href="#FNanchor_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> <div class="footnotes"> begin a footnote list put <br /> after each footnote <div class="footnote"> </div> end a footnote list </div>
Index:
<a href="#Page_3" class="indexlink">[3]</a> insert an index link (to existing page anchor)
Poetry:
<div class="poem"> start a poem <div class="stanza"> start a stanza <span class="i0"></span><br /> for indents <span class="i1"> <span class="i2"> <span class="i3"> <span class="i4"> <span class="i5"> <span class="i6"> </div> end a stanza </div> end a poem
Table of Contents:
Here are my TOC snippets, but you really need a separate check list for tables
<hr style='width: 45%;' />
<a name="toc" id="toc"></a>
<span class="totoc"><a href="#toc">Top</a></span>
<h2 class="toc"><a name="Contents" id="Contents"></a>Contents</h2>
<table border="0" width="500" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" summary="Contents" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto">
<col style="width:15%;" />
<col style="width:5%;" />
<col style="width:70%;" />
<col style="width:10%;" />
<tr>
<td align='right'><span style='font-size:x-small'>CHAPTER</span></td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
<td align='right'><span style='font-size:x-small'>PAGE</span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">I</td>
<td></td>
<td align="left"><span class="smcap">A Strange Riddle</span></td>
<td align="right"><a href="#THE_CROOKED_HOUSE">9</a></td>
</tr>
</table>
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Here is the standard CSS file--I'm not going to try to explain it--just insert it at the top of your HTML file, and change the "Title" and "Author" entries near the top of it [Ed. note: several lines in this header have been removed as an experienced PPer advised that they are no longer required.]
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<title>
The Project Gutenberg Canada eBook of "Title",
by Author.
</title>
<style type="text/css">
p {margin-top: .75em; text-align: justify; margin-bottom: .75em; }
p.main {font-style: normal; font-size: 100%; text-indent: 0em;}
h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6 {text-align: center; clear: both;}
hr {width: 33%; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 2em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; clear: both;}
body{margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-family: serif}
.cen {text-align: center; text-indent: 0em;}
.smcap {font-variant: small-caps; font-size: 95%;}
.right {text-align: right; padding-right: 2em;}
.blockquot {margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%; font-size: 90%;}
.pagenum {position: absolute; left: 2em; font-size: 70%; text-align: right;}
.figcenter {margin: auto; text-align: center;}
.figleft {float: left; clear: left; margin-left: 0; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-top: -0.5em; margin-right: 0.2em; padding: 0; text-align: center;}
.figright {float: right; clear: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center;}
table {margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}
.tdr {text-align: right; vertical-align: bottom;}
.tdl {text-align: left; padding-left: .25em;}
.tdc {text-align: center; vertical-align: bottom;}
.poem {margin-left:10%; margin-right:10%; text-align: left;}
.poem br {display: none;}
.poem .stanza {margin: 1em 0em 1em 0em;}
.poem span.i0 {display: block; margin-left: 0em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.poem span.i1 {display: block; margin-left: 1em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.poem span.i2 {display: block; margin-left: 2em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.poem span.i3 {display: block; margin-left: 3em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.poem span.i10 {display: block; margin-left: 10em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.poem span.i8 {display: block; margin-left: 8em; padding-left: 3em; text-indent: -3em;}
.footnotes {border: dashed 1px; margin-top: 1em; clear: both;}
.footnote {margin-left: 10%; margin-right: 10%; font-size: 0.9em;}
.footnote .label {float:left; text-align: left;}
.fnanchor {font-size: .8em; text-decoration: none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Don’t forget: SAVE YOUR FILE FREQUENTLY
Revisions to Guidelines, FAQs and the DPC site code
Guideline Differences--See article at the top of the newsletter
Combined Proofing and Formatting Guidelines--Simon has reiterated his promise that he will put together a combined Proofing/Foofing wiki page for those Formatters who like to have only one document open at a time but also want to be able to check on certain Proofing Guidelines. Unfortunately there has been a delay. Simon hopes to produce them sometime in the near future.
The "combined guidelines" will be a very summarized version, not a complete document--but it's a huge task, which is the reason for the delay in issuance. Even DP-INT has no such animal--so we can't copy theirs. Once it is drafted, Simon will ask for review by experienced proofers and foofers to ensure that it is understandable--that is, not confusing or missing some extremely important rule.
ÜberProject #1: Chronicles of Canada
There continue to be lots of spaces for volunteers to PM, PP and even CP. To see the current status of the volumes, check out the ÜberProject wiki page for The Chronicles of Canada here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/The_Chronicles_of_Canada.
- De2164 and IonaV are going to CP the remaining volumes. They have had a couple of PMs volunteer, but there is still room for more. PPers will be needed once the volumes get through the rounds. We've had a couple volumes picked up by a new PPer who is doing a great job.
- We've arranged to get "mint condition" copies of the full set and so will be able to get good scans of all the maps and illustrations as well as picking up missing pages (if any). Thank you to hugger1935 for the use of the books.
- Volumes 4 and 12 have been split into multiple parts and are being used for BEGIN projects. A number of parts of each volume are sitting in P1: Waiting (English BEGIN) until they are needed; several parts are currently in various rounds undergoing proofing or formatting; and several parts of each volume have made it through to PPing though they won't be finalized until all parts are done--that may take awhile depending on how many newbies we get.
- Volume 6 is in P1: Waiting, Volumes 8, 11, 18 and 21 are in Post-Processing; Vol. 3 has completed PPing.
- PP standards have been set and the books do not have anything extremely difficult at all. Check the Chronicles wiki page for the PP standards. Some of the standards for PPing have been updated.
- Volumes 13, 17 and 24 are being done at DP-Int since the authors of these volumes are out of DPC's copyright purview. They will be posted to PG-Int in due time. For those that are interested, the books are in the P3 waiting queue.
- Six volumes have been posted to PGC:
- Volume 1: The Dawn of Canadian History, A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada,
- Volume 2: The Mariner of St Malo: A Chronicle of the Voyages of Jacques Cartier,
- Volume 5: The Seigneurs of old Canada: a Chronicle of New World Feudalism,
- Volume 20: Adventurers of the Far North, A Chronicle of the Arctic Seas,
- Volume 27: The Winning of Popular Government: A chronicle of the Union of 1841, and
- Volume 29: The Day of Sir John MacDonald, A Chronicle of the Early Years of the Dominion.
ÜberProject #2: Jesuit Relations
Vol. 65: Lower Canada, Mississippi Valley, 1696-1702, our first, is currently in F1: Available. Simple Simon is the PM and has decided that he will definitely PP this first volume, though he says that he will undoubtedly seek help from someone fluent in French to "look over his shoulder" on that side of things. He'll probably do the same for other languages as well.
Vol. 66: Illinois, Louisiana, Iroquois, Lower Canada, 1702-1712, our second, is in P3: Available. It is just like Vol. 65: strange characters, old style French spellings and accents, bits and pieces of other languages--lots of fun.
A set of standards has been determined and added to the Project Comments. An ÜberProject wiki page for Jesuit Relations has been created. It includes the basic instructions for proofing and formatting.
And is everyone ready for Simon to prep the next volume?...
ÜberProject #3: Governor General's Award Books
Warmheart has created an ÜberProject page for this uberproject. The page looks very good and has lots of links. You can see the details of what she has completed to date here: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Governor_General%27s_Literary_Awards Check it out, you might find something interesting there....
There are only a couple of books that are available since many of the authors are still alive--ah, well, we'll get them eventually. :)
ÜberProject #4: Periodicals
Graham's Magazine is the first part of our ongoing periodicals ÜberProject. All the first year's volumes are either in process or completed. There are six issues currently undergoing proofing or formatting with two in P1: Waiting. Two issues are in PP; and two issues have been posted to PGC.
Year two will be coming in due course.
Simon also needs some volunteers for PPing these periodicals--if you are interested, send him a PM.
Our Young Folks, An illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls; Issued monthly; Publication Dates: January 1865 thru October 1873 when it merged with St. Nicholas.
Two issues are in F1: Available, one in PP and one in prep.
To those who have worked on this periodical: comments, anyone? Do you like it?
Warmheart's wikipage for the Periodical can be found through this link: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Our_Young_Folks.
Scientific American--these are very early issues, too--from 1846. Simon hopes to get an issue up within the next week or so.
We've started a wiki page for it: http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Periodicals/Scientific_American. I've also been told that Tizz has agreed to co-PM/PP it.
Remember, these aren't the only periodicals that we can do--there are lots of others out there and some that are very different than "Graham's". Is there one that you'd like to do? Suggestions for favourite OLD periodicals are always welcome, but they must meet 3 criteria:
- published before 1860 to avoid the need for copyright checking
- good quality scans of a reasonable number of issues (preferably in whole volumes=a year)
- interesting content, out of the ordinary
ÜberProject #5: Works by Charles Dickens
Simple Simon and IonaV are Dickens fans. We know that there are many more out there. Although there are some of Dickens' works on the other PG sites, some of it is text only. We've got early editions of those books with illustrations as well as stories that have not yet been posted. As well, there are letters and essays and ...
- Bleak House, the original version illustrated by "Phiz", is in prep.
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood is currently in F2: Available.
- A Christmas Carol is in post processing.
- Two short stories for our anniversary blitz are posted to our wiki (http://www.pgdpcanada.net/wiki/index.php/Dickens_%22First_Anniversary%22_project): The Christmas Tree and What Christmas is as we get older. They will be posted to PG Canada with other Dickens' short stories.
More details and an ÜberProject wiki page to come.
We Grow Every Day
We are now up to 649 members. Welcome to all new members; I hope you find some projects that you will enjoy doing. Many of our members are also members of DP-Int/US and/or DP Europe--we welcome them and thank them for all their continued support and interest in DPC. (Numbers are accurate up to "press" time.)
| New | |
|---|---|
| April 2009 | 7 |
| March 2009 | 18 |
| February 2009 | 136 |
| January 2009 | 14 |
| 2008 total | 235 |
| 2007 total | 239 |
| Total to date | 649 |
Milestones
We are going to use this space to "celebrate" notable milestones achieved by a member, team, group or project. For example, we'll report when a member completes 5,000 pages in any one round; then we'll let you know when they've done 10,000 pages and so on.
The "team" numbers are the cumulative totals for each round for each member while they are members of a particular team. So that's why, the team pages go up whenever a team member's totals increase. Another reason to join a team or two....
Completed 30,000 pages in a round:
- uwe-joachim in F2 NEW!!!
Completed 25,000 pages in a round:
- rolands in P3
- Team USA in P3
Completed 20,000 pages in a round:
Completed 15,000 pages in a round:
- Foofers' Corner in F2
Completed 10,000 pages in a round:
- Team Canada in P1 and P2
- Team German in F2
Completed 5,000 pages in a round:
- Bibi in P3
- Daniel G in P1
- rcool in P1 and P2
- snowseraph in P2
- supo88 in P2
- De2164 in F1
- Warmheart in F1
- yajeulb in F1
- hugger1935 in F1 and F2
- Team USA in P2
- Team Canada in F1
- DPing with Cats in P2 and F1
- Foofers' Corner in F1
- LOTE Flotes my Bote in F2 NEW!!!
Great work, people!!!
Proofing & Formatting Stats
Everyone exceeded their March page goals. As well, both P2 and P3 passed 200%!!! Great work, people!!!...
Should we think about increasing the monthly targets?...
April has started very well; after 9.5 days: All rounds are well on the way to reaching their goals before the end of the month; P3 is leading with over 60%. However, all the other rounds are not far behind. Can everyone keep up the pace?... Let's see where everyone is in two weeks time.
| Round | P1 | P2 | P3 | F1 | F2 |
| April goal | 3,000 | 3,000 | 2,250 | 3,000 | 2,250 |
| *April to date | 1,248 | 1,107 | 1,419 | 1,443 | 901 |
| April to date % | 41.60% | 36.90% | 63.07% | 48.10% | 40.04% |
| March goal | 3,100 | 3,100 | 2,325 | 3,100 | 2,325 |
| March final | 4,933 | 7,133 | 5,353 | 4,015 | 3,285 |
| March final % | 159.13% | 230.10% | 230.24% | 129.52% | 141.29% |
*Numbers accurate to "press" time.
For more statistics and related links go to: Statistics Central.
Books In Process And/or Posted To PG Canada or PG-International
At press time, we had 155 Gold Star books posted to PGC or PG-Int (with 3 in PPV). Fantastic work, all.
There are currently 129 Silver Star projects in post processing and 124 Bronze Star projects which are currently undergoing proofing or formatting. For more details about these projects, please see the listings on the bottom of the DP Welcome page.
User Team Talk
Have you checked out our user teams? To check out the teams or to join one go to: User Teams. The Team threads are located under Proofing Team Talk. Is there a team that you'd like to see? You can create a team from the link on the User Teams page--you might be surprised by who shows up to join you.
We currently have 22 teams; more are always welcome.
Possible Future Articles
This is YOUR newsletter: yes, there are forum posts and user team posts, but is there something that you want to tell the whole DPC community? You are allowed to brag here. You can also be anonymous if you choose ... we won't tell.
- Tips or Hints: for those people who do/did a lot of proofing and/or formatting on DP-Int/US &/or DP-Eur, do you have any tips or "rules" that you follow to help yourself while you proof or format? Even a re-wording of a guideline that helps you remember how to do something specific.
- Tell us why you joined DPC.
- Quotable Quotes: have you seen a thought-provoking quote that is relevant to the DP Community while you were doing your proofing that you just had to pass on?...
- The most interesting, outrageous, or strangest line you proofed: before it was proofed (if that was the outrageous or strange part) and what it was after proofing (please do not submit obscene language, it will not be published).
- New projects: PMs is there a series of books or books by a very prolific author that you'd like to do?--let us know so that we can help pass the word to the proofers so they'll be there to jump in and work on them.
- Kudos, Bouquets & Compliments: are there any DPers that you would like to give special thanks and/or recognition to: a mentor who gave you lots of guidance, a PPer that made your project into a very wonderful looking book for posting to PG, a CPer or image/text preparer who went the extra little bit to provide you with clean scans, well OCR'd text, or good illustrations for your project, another DPer who made you feel really welcome or provided you with some good advice or....
- "Guest articles" by anyone and everyone who wishes to....
