From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Keith
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:29:14 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Kling" <jkling at nasw.org>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Keith

> Keith, I apologise for my earlier post regarding WSFA journal. The tone
of the response was inappropriate. The
> WSFA Journal is clearly in good hands. The suggestion I made still stands
(assuming freeware is available to
> implement it).
>
> and Ted, I apololgise to you as well. Re-reading the various posts, it's
clear that I over-reacted. I
> personally feel that the program was of higher quality than you do, but
then I'm biased. Certainly there were
> errors that could have been corrected. Some of that had to do with
software problems that cropped up in the
> final days before printing. In the scramble to make last-minute changes
and deal with problems with Adobe
> PageMaker, copyediting suffered and some changes that should have been
made, weren't.
>
> And in the interest of passing on experience to next year's program book
editor, I would suggest being very
> careful with using Adobe PageMaker or I suppose any other program. Go to
the printer well in advance of your
> printing day and make sure they can open and print a file using that
program. I received assurances over the
> phone on two separate occasions that the printer could handle PageMaker
files. When the day came, they
> couldn't, and I spent a day and a half going to four different local
printers before I discovered one that
> could print the thing out.

Apologies accepted.  And I'm genuinely glad we're back on good terms.

And the fact that I don't have any publishing software -- Adobe PageMaker
or anything else -- was a consideration when I decided I couldn't do a
Program Book for Capclave.    (It's entirely possible this situation, and
my time considerations, may change in the future.  If that happens I will
offer my services.)

(Hmmm... Two "considerations" in two sentences.  That's what comes of
proofing and editing legal hearings and depositions....)

--Ted White