al said:

I've got an errata report on my hands that's 3400 lines long, that I haven't had the courage to plow through yet. The reporter lists something wrong on almost every one of the book's nearly 400 pages.

that's a big job, to be sure. but it's not difficult. and if it seems like it is, you are doing it wrong. put up the files, and the scans, and i'll show you how to do it right. so it's _fun_ for people to do.

On top of that, he'd like an HTML version created with the footnotes cross-linked and from what I can tell, the page numbers inserted because there are internal references to them.

sounds totally reasonable to me, and furthermore, how the thing shoulda been done in the first place.

Question: where's an Errata Team when you want one? Answer: as happened a year or so ago, they find out what they're up against, and vanish. <g>)

it wasn't the problem that frightened them away, al. it was the monster you proposed as the "solution"... :+) but hey, i'm sure it doesn't compare in the slightest to the years of volunteers that d.p. has chased away. -bowerbird