>>>Perhaps a bilingual editor who will fulfill the responsibilities of editing the magazine for a year and in return will receive a free one-year PUTM membership? No outlay that way...
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>>Trilingual, we have English, Portuguese and Spanish. But, it goes far more than that. I guess you could ask Markus about it. :) As soon as you involve more resources for things like this, this has a significant impact on the delivery of the magazine. Basically, this means the issues have to be ready far more ahead of what it is actually for us. As we want to deliver content that are really up to date, it'd be difficult to delay the delivery of each issue. An example, is that sometimes we include a coverage of an event. If that event was just finished on the last week of the month, the week after it could be in the magazine. Doing otherwise, won't allow us to reach those objectives. This is one thing we like about the magazine. We do however try to look ahead in that direction and see how we can achieve that goal within the same delivery schedule.
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>>I think some issues are really being taken too much personal. I've seen situations in the past where just because of a single typo or a bad wordings in a phrase that it was the end of the world. We see that every day on the messages area and I practically never hear anything about it. I think most should appreciate the enormous amount of content that we provide and continue to help us improve in that direction. Yes, when those situations happen, we will evolve and improve in that direction in order to correct and see what we can do at long term, within what we can support, to help and continue to look ahead. And, this is perfectly correct like that as received suggestions is ok with us as it allows us to receive feedback and improve. But, I've seen some situations where it was like the end of the world just for one simple typo. BTW, I've collected a collection of typos in FPA and other well known magazines. I never approached the situation as if I would stop reading those magazines
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>> start diminishing their image when it happened. That I said, is also a general opinion and is not targeted to anyone specifically. It's mostly based on observations in the same way I wrote an article about it last year.
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>Michel;
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>The process of being a technical editor involves more than proper use of grammar. Being a technical editor can be a challenging task. Tracy and I have some experience in editing a technical document written by someone not born in an English speaking country. One problem I ran into was attempting to understand how to properly explain what had been accomplished. Use of an improper term, word or concept would give a different meaning to what was being discussed.
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>Another problem was we had “too many editors” and “no source control”. Some one would make a correction but it was too easy to loose track of “which version was being corrected”. It was an interesting experience though.
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>Your comment about deadlines is well taken. All that being said, it would be nice if someone could “go over” each issue, to catch "major grammar issues". Being a critic is not always an enviable position. At the same time you concern yourself with having the best looking professional document. There are always tradeoffs in life. :)
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>Tom

Agree 100%.

Changing the subject. I better find somebody else to translate&publish my last book....
:)