Source handed over to production
August 30th, 2008 by Bryan O'Sullivan
The DocBook source for the book is now in the hands of O’Reilly’s production team. We sent the first batch of copyedits back a few days ago. The rest will be flowing through over the coming two weeks or so.
At this point, we’re mostly reviewing punctuation, typeface, and grammar fixes from our copyeditor, who is doing a remarkably thorough job. We have little ability to act upon any further feedback through the web comment system.
Over the next few days, I’ll update the book web site to hide all comments posted so far, and take the mention of “beta” out of the various paths and URLs (don’t worry, I’ll add forwarding links, so your existing bookmarks won’t break).
why hide comments? it’s insigthful to read user comments.
Most of the comments so far are corrections and suggestions for the content of the book.
If the text of the book is going to remain online, it might be nice to remove the editing comments, but open things up to new comments. That way people could add examples, ask questions, respond to questions and the like. I’m not sure that the current comment mechanism is quite right for that though.
By the way – great effort and I hope that the online comments were productive and that it might work for other, similar efforts. I’ll be buying a copy and making sure that my students know about it – I suspect it could be the book that makes haskell accessible to lots of people.
Bryan, if the editing comments have been take down does that mean the text remaining has the corrections applied? I can see a typo in Ch3 (“When we introduced the type BookStore…”). s/Store/Info/;
It’d be nice to know so that my deeply pedantic nature can be kept in check while I read
And so I don’t expose my pedantry with further comments like this.
The content on the site has not been copyedited.
Will you be making the DocBook source available online for download? I’d like to grab a copy for my eBook reader.
We might make the DocBook source available at some point, but probably not for at least a year. O’Reilly should be offering a PDF purchase option, which might do the trick for you.
Thanks for reply. Unfortunately, PDF is not really an option for eBook reading devices, unless it’s been specifically created for a particular reader. I’m going to convert (a freely available) HTML into something that my reader can eat, and that might do the trick for me.