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[Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>]

At 8:59 AM -0800 2/20/00, Brian McNett wrote:
>...
>... in it's final draft form 30 days before it's
         ^^^^                                 ^^^^

The possessive "its", like "his" and "hers", needs no apostrophe.

>... that pretty much covers the next for months.
                                       ^^^

We won't be covering the NeXT for months, if ever (:-).


All of these nits are by way of bringing up the question of
preafrooding.  V&I are both fairly good copy editors, if a
bit quirky at times.  Baiju is not, AFAIK, and our authors
should not expect him to be.  So, we need to have a way to
get articles thoroughly scanned before they are sent in to
PerlMonth.

My suggestion is that the "final" drafts for all articles
get sent both to Brian and to the Scribes.  Those of us that
have time can chew on the material and submit comments.  I
see this not only as a collegial way to improve the text,
but also a running workshop on writing.  A side benefit, of
course, is that Scribes get an early look at the columns.

The mechanics of formatting deserve a comment.  IIRC, Vicki
has been submitting HTML to Baiju.  This lets her see columns
much as they would appear in the magazine and is a Good Thing.
I think we should probably encourage this, possibly doing our
internal "publishing" by means of links and semi-private URLs.

So, if Arved has an HTML piece for review, he simply puts it
up on a web page somewhere, then sends the Scribes a link.  If
anyone doesn't have a web server to use for this, let me know.
We can easily set up a few accounts for Scribes...

-r
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