jim said:
Not that I totally disagree, but when you take out the easy stuff, the stuff that's left is harder to find.
where's your data that validates that? i think when you clear the page of "the easy stuff", it becomes _easier_ to find "the stuff that's left", because you're not distracted by the easy stuff. it might _feel_ "less effective", since you're making fewer corrections, but the ones you do make are more vital. what usually happens is that it takes one round of proofing to remove the easy stuff, and another for the rest... what i say is to make the first round a tool-aided round, to preserve your human resources, so the humans only have to do one word-by-word round, which is the difficult process. besides, it's not as if zero satisfaction comes in the tool-aided round. myself, i feel _greater_ satisfaction there, since my efficiency is boosted _considerably._ and in a roundless system, anything that moves a page closer to "finished status" is a good thing, because that's the goal. just _offer_ people a good tool to use; you will find they enjoy it immensely... by the way, dkretz has a new version of his tool available now, at the usual place:
-bowerbird
jim said:
Not that I totally disagree, but when you take out the easy stuff, the stuff that's left is harder to find.
where's your data that validates that?
Simply my personal experience finishing a book taking this exact approach. When you take out the easy stuff, you are left with the stuff that typically the P2s and P3s find -- hopefully! When you do the machine marking of errors you double the amount of errors that need to be fixed -- since each input file contributes its errors. But now many of the "P1" type errors are marked, which could be a win if the P1 people were presented with a highlighted version of those errors, similar to what is currently presented in WordCheck. To me a surprising amount of work goes into fixing hyphenation/dehyphenation linebreak errors, where it should be possible to make a more intelligent tool to fix most of these problems -- or does someone claim to already have such an intelligent tool? But again, when I'm doing a "solo" project, I don't really spend that much of my total effort on a "P1" type pass to begin with, and a surprisingly large amount of time and effort goes into doing "PP" stuff -- including supporting that GD PG "txt70" format!
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