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

Starting #16: The Pilgrimage - A Short Story, p81

Page Nos are of the printed Master.

#16: The Pilgrimage - A Short Story, p81

No change

#16 Done.

Summary of 2nd Pass:

Except for a reprise which I'll do (my errors with italicising some quote citations)

#1 - #16 (inclusive)

Done.



I'm away out for the day

"/" throughout

There are ~19 instances of "word/other word" and ~8 instances of "word / other word". I prefer the former and it is the democratic preference.

Anyway it's the guidy way.

"There shouldn't be any spaces either side of slash characters - so it's 'red/green' not 'red / green'" - A266131.

So you need to correct (by space removal):

p23/258: "indentations / extrusions)"
p47/258: "father / aunt / grandmother"
p47/258: "mother / brother / uncle"
p130/258: "B flat major / G major"
p130/258: "A major / F major"
p222/258: "H-block / Armagh".

p85/258: The font size of "Who Will I Meet?" is surely incorrrect?

From paulh:


Opening page: Hitchhiker's Guide ?

: to the Galaxy'.

Introduction Page 1. worldwide community

Page 2. seventeen-year-old

Page 2. A brief history of H2G2: However, by the end

Page 2. " " " : that the BBC

Page 5. In a nutshell: that improves

Page 5. " " " : each other's

Entries:

Page 9. woodscrew

woodscrews

Page 10. <the un-initiated) < the uninitiated)

less deep than the depth

Page 15. English influence had

Page 18. split in two - the Irish

Page 29. <‘fitting together of a counterpoint with’ a new> ‘[....] a counterpoint' with a new

Page 34. well-wishers

Page 37. <‘Monicas’> should that be ‘Monica’ ?

Page 43. be reseated

coconut palms

Page 46. a rewrite was required

Page 47. motorbike

Memorable moments ?

Page 48. that the British music industry

Page 54. my classmates

< that no-one> that no one

well-educated

Page 55. long time.)

Page 56. vertical take-off

a twenty-hour shift

Page 57. < ’till> till

fiberboard (there are a few US spellings that I have not changed)

Page 58. Norwegian and Asian

Page 61. well kept

Page 65. Most high-heel wearers

Page 69. high-heel wear

Page 70. Many high-heel wearers

Page 71. is one of the prime

< considered nonexistent> considered non-existent (footnote)

Page 76. co-workers

Have I mentioned how much I adore you guys? I love you you're my best mates, you are....

Seriously, I'm hugely grateful and will incorporate all (well most) of these suggestions.

B

Rod's Reprise (of the entries - specifically where I may have codged up fonts for quotation [italics] and reference/citation [straight])

#35, Percy Fawcett and the Lost City of Z, p189
para: 1 italic/citation: straight

#37, Bobby Sands MP, p203
p203, para 3 italic/citation straight
p204, 'Early Life' para1 ditto
p205, 'Prison' para 1, ditto
p206, para 3 quote to italic
p207 para 1 quote to italic
p208, 'Hunger Strike' para 1 - quote/citation
p209, 'Election' para1 - quote/citation
p211, ‘Let Them All Starve’ para1 - quote/citation
p212 'Aftermath' para 1 para1 - quote/citation
- & para 3 quote

#39 Stolpersteine - An Everyday Memorial, p218
p218 para 1 quote/citation
p218 'Stumbling Blocks On City Streets' para 1 quote/citation

#40, The Great Flood of 1953, p223
p228 'The Future', Last para- quote/citation

#9, 'The Years of Billy Joel’s We Didn’t Start the Fire: 1962', p44
p44, 1st 4 lines to italics
p48 'Ole Miss' para 1 - quote/citation
p51 para 1 - quote/citation

#10, Sex in the Head
All 3 pages: indented paras are quotes


Phew! After that, I'd learned from Trout Montague...

I think this job is easy compared to Ben's

Check. The first block of the items above were from my 1st reading...

As far as I know, the 2nd pass is:

#1
- to -
#16

Done.

#17 Rick Rescorla Security Manager and Hero p86

p88 Last para, quote to italics

#17 Done

#18, SEx Education - Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

Quotes: italicise? Or not?

I see it as all-of-a-piece so I suggest leaving 'em as is - straight.

#18 - Done

I am not sure I agree that the Rick Rescorla memorial should be italicised. I'd suggest that how it should appear is as per the Entry: A11284850.

Note the line spaces in the Entry.

I appreciate that you might have page break issues, but this is a memorial: it should appear as IcyNorth has described it.

But if you have to do something to make it distinct from the narrative text, embolden it, see how it looks.

p101/258: Harbour/Harbor?

cf. F20154027?thread=8136894&skip=80&show=1

Don't worry about me having to italicise the blocks of text, the magicof styles 'n' formatting mean I only have to do it once.

B

Trout M,
Rick Riscoria - point taken

Harbor for me

Rod

Page 83. <‘Yes’. ‘Wherever my memories choose’,> ‘Yes. Wherever my memories choose,'

can recall the place.'

coincide, then yes.’

Page 84. would be tolerated.

on that tree,'

envelop us all.’

prestigious

Page 85. he married

nicknamed Putzi,

,nicknamed Gucki.

Wörthersee

Page 86. action in Vietnam.

Page 88. techniques he could.

I'm **finally** joining up user names and email addies.



Ben

p52/258: There's that "Hitch Hiker" again. It's a "Hitchhiker".

See http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/Subeditors-Style.

And from http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/Subeditors-Style...

"The numbers one to ten should be spelled out (except for numbers used in dates, statistics in tables, weights and measurements); numbers 11 onwards should be in figures. Also use 'zero' and 'infinity'. Though numerical format works fine, numbers over a million can look much nicer if written (one million, two million, and then ten million, 11 million, 12 million, etc.) When writing in numerical form, use commas in numbers above 999, thus two million should be written out 2,000,000".

Also, "Use '21st Century', where 'Century' is spelled out and has an initial capital and the number is expressed in figures. If you're discussing something from a specific century, note the hyphenation of the compound adjective: '20th-Century fashions', for example".


p27/258 uses "1st Century" and "Fifth Century"
p28/258 uses eighth/twelfth/fourteenth/sixteenth
p29/258 uses nineteenth/eighteenth/18th
p30/258 uses nineteenth/twentieth/nineteenth/19th

So far a bit inconsistent.

p42/258 "fourteenth century Avignon" could well become 14th-Century Avignon". See above.

Thereafter, pages 43-45 are littered with l/c "century"

p66/258 uses "18th Century"
p90/258 uses "19th Century"
p90/258 uses "9th Century"
p91/258: "19th Century" and "8th Century"
p92/258: 10th, 8th and 12th
p118/258: "21st"
p141/258: "18th"
p156/258: "19th"
p164/258: "19th century" (lower case C!)
p197/258: "21st"
p216/258: "20th"
p237/258: "20th"
p241/258: "21st"

I think I could live with all of those from p66 (barring the "c" on p164) onwards so long as a consistent approach is retrofit to pre-December 2004, i.e., before p66.

Damn, I thought I'd standardised those, except for the ones in the history of Ireland. (I was loosing the will to live).

What was interesting was that the material I got capitalised the 20th and 21st Centuries, but lower-cased previous centuries like the 9th century or the 16th century.

Our Centuries are more important than their centuries...?