I want to be as faithful to the original as reasonable; therefore, I am sticking to the current errata arrangement.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Hahn, Harvey" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2009 10:33 Subject: Re: [Jgeneral] Notation as a Tool of Thought To: General forum <[email protected]> > Roger Hui wrote: > |The wrong symbol for floor was in the original paper > |and is noted in the Errata section. > > Errata/Corrigenda sections were obviously necessary in print > publications because you can't change the printed page, but, for > pete'ssake, we're now in an online world, and distributable > documents should > have the correct versions within them. Why promulgate > errors?? There's > enough of that on the Internet already! For repristinators > who want to > recreate the original error-filled document for themselves, > reverse the > print-world process and have an "Errors Corrected" section (containing > the print errors) at the end. (Editions of old music do > this all the > time: misprints, etc., are noted in footnotes or in a separate > section,while the corrected performing edition is the main > content.) If deemed > necessary, insert a preliminary note indicating that errors have been > corrected in this document and that they have been noted at the > end (or > in footnotes or whatever). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
