Forgive me if this has already been discussed to death, but I couldn't find any threads about it...
I was just given as a gift the three FFE CDs for CT, MT, and TNE, and after browsing them briefly I had a few thoughts.
First, I notice there is a big errata list in each one. This is good. I noticed there didn't seem to be an URL which informed me of where to find the most recent version of each of these documents. It seems to me this is a rather significant oversight.
Second, I am wondering if the errata was incorporated into the books. I get the feeling most of them are simple scans (many of which were scanned or assembled improperly and have unreadable text or have upside down pages or other oddities making them difficult to use without a printout and scissors-and-tape job) and are not even text-searchable. I dislike the PDF format because I can't edit/correct the documents, nor can I copy their contents into something like a Word document without screwing up the formatting and everything else. I understand this is an enormous undertaking, as I once scanned in my FFS book and all the addendums and errata with the plan of compiling a combined FFS book, and just doing the error-correcting on the OCR job was a PITA, to say nothing of doing the corrections and additions. But I don't suppose by any chance this kind of thing was done or is planned?
Third, some organization could stand to be imposed on the file structure. Dumping dozens of barely related files into a single directory looks unpolished at the very least. Windows has come up with this new technology (TL7) called a file folder, which allows you to organize files and reduce clutter.
Fourth, I understand the DGP stuff was decanonized and all that, but does anyone know if Mr. Sanger is planning on a similar offering for his products? Seems like a way to recoup at least a part of his investment.
Overall I'm getting geekwood at this. A lot of things I never heard of in there. Very glad Marc did this. Even makes me want to check out T5.
I was just given as a gift the three FFE CDs for CT, MT, and TNE, and after browsing them briefly I had a few thoughts.
First, I notice there is a big errata list in each one. This is good. I noticed there didn't seem to be an URL which informed me of where to find the most recent version of each of these documents. It seems to me this is a rather significant oversight.
Second, I am wondering if the errata was incorporated into the books. I get the feeling most of them are simple scans (many of which were scanned or assembled improperly and have unreadable text or have upside down pages or other oddities making them difficult to use without a printout and scissors-and-tape job) and are not even text-searchable. I dislike the PDF format because I can't edit/correct the documents, nor can I copy their contents into something like a Word document without screwing up the formatting and everything else. I understand this is an enormous undertaking, as I once scanned in my FFS book and all the addendums and errata with the plan of compiling a combined FFS book, and just doing the error-correcting on the OCR job was a PITA, to say nothing of doing the corrections and additions. But I don't suppose by any chance this kind of thing was done or is planned?
Third, some organization could stand to be imposed on the file structure. Dumping dozens of barely related files into a single directory looks unpolished at the very least. Windows has come up with this new technology (TL7) called a file folder, which allows you to organize files and reduce clutter.
Fourth, I understand the DGP stuff was decanonized and all that, but does anyone know if Mr. Sanger is planning on a similar offering for his products? Seems like a way to recoup at least a part of his investment.
Overall I'm getting geekwood at this. A lot of things I never heard of in there. Very glad Marc did this. Even makes me want to check out T5.
