h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi,
I'm your subeditor for this entry and will be checking it for spelling, grammer and GuideML mistakes. If you have any questions about the Peer Review process, you can post them here. I'll post any changes that I want to make to this thread as well.

Axe

I've read through the entry and I've only got one comment to make: When you have equations in the body text of your entry, I think that it'd read better if I changed the font (e.g. by enclosing it in code tags). What do you think?

Axe

I've finished doing the rest of the editing now, so I'm waiting on your input

Hey Axe. It looks good--I'm sorry that I haven't been around for the past couple days really, to get back to you, but now I've had time... About changing the font, if you think that that would help to make it a bit more readable (that was my largest problem in writing this entry... making things readable/understandable... ), then go for it! I debated with myself about perhaps putting parentheses around the expressions in the body of the entry, as well, so that might also be a solution. Whatever you think works best.

OK, I'll change the font .

Oh, and at least you reply more than some authors, who never actually post to these notes.

I'm waiting on a reply from someone at the GuideML Clinic about whether I can actually use tags for math. equations, and I'll update you when they respond.

I would post to the Subed's mailing list, but I'm at school and my (damned) system administrator's blocked Hotmail.

The people at the GML clinic say to use the PRE tag instead, so here goes!

I'll use it on the first few paragraphs first so we can see how it looks.

On second thoughts, that's not a good idea: the PRE tag creats a new line everytime it's used.

Back to the GML Clinic...

You changed your name?


And yes, I appreciate this too... I hadn't even known that a sub had gotten the entry; usually I try to find that out and go after the sub but ya got me first! Congrats! And thanks for asking 'bout this stuff, too--it's nice to still have a voice.

Same here. Seems that my Subediting Notes are a good idea after all .

BTW, I'm still waiting for someone from h2g2 support to post at the GML conversation at F24276?thread=180108

Oh, and I thought people might like to know that I'm the Captain of the UBS Tripwire IV, a Subeditor and a Mercenary .

I've changed the entry to reflect what the Editors have said. Basically, any maths with an = sign is whereas the rest aren't.

Comments?

I like using the for the first section, because it sets the three different forms off more from the rest of the piece (yikes, what grammar... )... For the second section though, what about changing the wording to stop the *need* for the equals-sign equations? Like:


"The Point of Converting From General to Factored Form"

It is easiest to find the real zeroes of a parabolic equation when an equation in factored form is set equal to zero. Because the answer is zero ...

When the equation is not given in factored form, however, finding the real zeroes is not so easy nor so intuitive. Therefore .... This entry is concerned with the conversion of an expression in general form to factored form. This conversion can quickly become ...


How's that? (I'm sorry that I didn't include all the GuideML and that with it; you'll have to do a quick comparison between the two.)

Oh my, the footnotes are gigantic....

In the third footnote (the one about Baskhar and his formula), I think that it would be better just to leave the formula regularly, as part of the paragraph, because it is confusing to have all that space within a *single* footnote... (For #4 though--"FOIL" method--I think that it helps to make it more understandable.)

You might want to ask the Italics about their opinion on blockquotes within footnotes, too.


Thanks again!

Done!

*wonders why the word Italic sounds so foreboding*

They look alright to me

Did ya see post #13?

Hmm...

*looks up the conversation*

*hits his pc*

It must have got lost in my conversation list somewhere .

I'll read it now...

There we go!

BTW, I had a look at the thread datestamps: just after you posted, a few people posted to some other conversations that I read, so you got put down the list.

Have a to make up for it!

Thanks.


One more thing... (That looks great. ) I'm on a computer that I don't usually use (a Mac), and the superscripted 2s (they are coded as entities) are showing up as question marks... Those really *are* the right things to use, right? As opposed to tags?

The GuideML rules say that we should use , so I'd stick with them. I'll go and hunt down a mac and have a look if you want.