From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:08:57 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclave

> Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org> wrote:
>
> > You've bragged in the past about your copyediting, challenging
> > anyone to find errors in the WSFA Journal.
>
> More of a friendly challenge than bragging, intended primarily to get
> more people to read it.  Including people who don't normally read
> fanzines because they find typos as painful as sour notes.
>
> > I do not share your love of minutiae, and have no desire to engage
> > in the act of reductionism you call editing.
>
> Hannah Shapero was quite annoyed that her name was misspelled.  I
> think it's important to keep our artists and authors happy, so they
> will come back next year.  I don't know and don't care whose fault
> this was.  I just want to make sure it doesn't happen again next year.
> I volunteered to proofread the thing.  I volunteer to do so next year,
> and hope I will be taken up on it.
>
> > And finally, I urge you to make of use some sort of legitimate
> > layout program, or even word processing software.
>
> If you want to make a motion that the club pay for the appropriate
> software, I'd be glad to second it.  Other than photocopying costs,
> the WSFA Journal is produced on a budget of zero.
>
> > Hard copies of the journal with url's at the top and 'page 1 of x'
> > at the bottom is amateurish.
>
> I think it's good to have the URL, so that people know they can find
> that issue, and other issues, online.  I think 'page 1 of x' is even
> better.  With some old WSFA Journals, I can't tell whether there are
> pages missing or not.  And some loose pages in the WSFA archives
> obviously come from WSFA Journals, but I have no idea of telling
> which issues.
>
> But I'm always open to suggestions for how I can do it better.  If
> most readers prefer no page numbers, I'll be glad to leave them off.

Good ghod, don't do that!   Pages wholly unnumbered lead to chaos!

--Ted White