| pleia2 | nhaines: yay, 3DS battery came in today | 00:25 |
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| nhaines | pleia2: \o/ | 00:28 |
| nhaines | That was pretty quick. :) | 00:28 |
| pleia2 | yeah, shipped from WA | 00:29 |
| nhaines | I just took a look at the first chapter of my book from the copyeditor, and she moved all the punctuation inside the quotes. And I'm like "Well, this is going to be a problem." | 00:29 |
| pleia2 | oh boy | 00:29 |
| pleia2 | I mean, grammatically correct, but maybe not always appropriate from a technical writing perspective? | 00:30 |
| nhaines | So I found the email from last year where I asked about the copyediting standards and was told all punctuation should go outside the quotes. :) Then I replied to it and CCed my coordinating editor and was like "Can we figure it out?" | 00:30 |
| nhaines | Yeah. Well, I don't care which we use as long as I can push back where it's going to cause a problem. | 00:30 |
| nhaines | ianorlin: I need to send out a meeting reminder, but I'm not sure I can make it this Sunday. There's nothing on the agenda. Can you run the meeting or should we cancel it? | 00:32 |
| ianorlin | I am pretty sure I can run it | 00:33 |
| pleia2 | nhaines: oh, heh, I see | 00:34 |
| nhaines | ianorlin: thanks. | 00:35 |
| nhaines | pleia2: I'd rather use hacker-style quotes throughout, though. :) | 00:36 |
| nhandler | pleia2: Not sure if this is better saved until the meeting, but if you are still planning on doing an Ubuntu Hour on the 9th I'd be up for helping out with anything needed. | 01:26 |
| akk | nhaines: There should be a way that you can accept or reject changes, with a comment ... definitely reject them and explain that it makes it technically wrong | 01:42 |
| akk | (and maybe email the copy editor so they stop doing it on whatever chapter they're working on now). | 01:42 |
| pleia2 | nhandler: definitely planning on it! I'll let you know if I need anything :) | 01:43 |
| pleia2 | still trying to catch up with life+work post-vacation, arg /o\ | 01:44 |
| nhaines | akk: Well, I assume that I can reject the bad changes, but if I can push back on it globally then I'd rather just do that. | 01:44 |
| nhaines | But yes, I was told to leave any changes I disagreed with, make any changes I wanted, and just comment explaining them. | 01:44 |
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| nhaines | And they replied and said they want punctuation inside quotes, except for anywhere that causes a technical issue, so just flag any discrepencies I see. I can live with that. :) | 04:44 |
| Roguehorse | Good morning =) | 18:16 |
| nhandler | Morning Roguehorse | 18:19 |
| * Roguehorse is going to watch a movie .... be back later =) | 18:21 | |
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