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Re: Book: can we incorporate O'Reilly's edits?

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-10-21 01:30:14 CEST

On Oct 20, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Julian Foad wrote:

> I have started to notice some differences between our copy of the book
> source and what O'Reilly published. For instance, they added a
> section "Comments and Questions", they listed Appendix E in the table
> of contents (where we forgot to), they edited the content and
> formatting of Appendix E, etc.
>
> Is there any chance of us getting those modifications from O'Reilly in
> a batch? If not, we will just have to choose whether to make the same
> edits to our source if and when we notice them, which is not the end
> of the world but a bit of a shame.

O'Reilly made a bunch of edits without telling us, and we had to
manually discover them and recreate them in the source. It was ugly.
:-(

After the fact, it looks like they're able to give us some kind of
'batch' description of the changes, but only if we push them a bit.
There's been a bit of discussion about it, but we never pushed for it
very hard.

In the meantime, feel free to manually port stuff from hardcopy to
source, if you notice things...

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