Typo's in the Ubuntu Book

[Mads Peter Rommedahl]

Okay, sounds good..

I also just remembered this: The 'example' documents that come with a clean
install of Gutsy (particularly the oo-about-these-files.odt still refer to
OO.o 2.2, but should be updated to 2.3.

Could any of you perhaps take care of that?

Mads Peter

2007/10/7, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net>:
>
> On Sunday 07 October 2007 06:23:42 Mads Peter Rommedahl wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Recently I downloaded the current svn trunk, and starting reading
> Chapter 1
> > in the Ubuntu Book (/teamstuff/book) - there I have so far discovered at
> > least two typos: On page 14: "Ubuntu includes on the order or 17,000
> pieces
> > of software on its central servers" which I guess should be " Ubuntu
> > includes on the order of 17,000 pieces of software on its central
> servers"?
> >
> > and on page 27: " As mentioned above, Canonical Ltd. is a company
> founded
> > by Shuttleworth with the primary goal of developing and supported the
> > Ubuntu distribution." which should be " As mentioned above, Canonical
> Ltd.
> > is a company founded by Shuttleworth with the primary goal of developing
> > and supporting the Ubuntu distribution."
> >
> > How would I normally go about fixing these kinds of minor typos? I tried
> > doing a .diff, but I guess that kind of stuff only works on .xml (the
> > docbook stuff)
> >
> > Also, in some ways the book could perhaps do with a bit of updating? On
> > page 7: " Born in April 2004 and at just under two years old at the time
> of
> > this writing, a history of Ubuntu may seem premature. However, the last
> two
> > years have been full ones for Ubuntu." could maybe do with some
> updating?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mads Peter Rommedahl
>
> Good afternoon Madas,
>
> THe version of the Official Ubuntu book that is currently located
> in /teamstuff/book is from the 1st Edition with the current version of the
> book being 2nd Edition.   I will be talking w/ JOno and the editor to see
> what exactly the goal of keeping /teamstuff/book current with the latest
> version and also if we should be moving it into docbook as well.
>
> Jonathan
>
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