EDITING NOTES

As my work is in draft form, the following helps explain the structure.

FONT

1) Blue font is direct quotation. Hard copy might use italics, but the blue us easier to follow in draft form.

2) Bold font and colored fonts emphasizes names and topics for my own editing.

3) Book titles are underlined.

ENGLISH USAGE

1) Seventeenth century or 17th century?  The latter.

2) Punctuation within quotes?  Only if the quote itself calls for it, the British way.

3) Archaic spellings.  I’ve generally rendered quotations into current spellings, particularly if my source was itself an English translation.  I’ve left a few excerpts in originall olde English for varietie.

ILLUSTRATIONS

1) Graphics may be copyrighted.  My use falls within the license of academic research, but permissions may be required for reproduction.

2) Some illustrations in which the original lithographic technology was crude are accessible as photocopy.  I’ve removed speckles and markings extraneous to my point, added contrast and in some cases added color.

3) I prefer period illustrations showing action, not faces of some.  As portraits add little to draft content, however, I’ll insert them later.

YET TO DO

1) Text.  Unpolished, terse and uneven, prone to the ills of cut and paste.  Attend to start-to-finish flow.

2) Content.  Prune.

3) Units.  Employed as found, some metric, others imperial.  Unify to one or the other.

4) References.  For now, it just seems too busy.

4) Subheadings.  For now, just to help the drafting.  Choose a more formal system.

5) Index

SEQUENCE

1) Topics are sequentially enumerated with holes where I might want to insert.

2) CAPITALIZED TITLES designate what might be sections.

3) Short topics won't merit chapter status.

4) A "Benchmark" topic is pursued in broader contest.

FILES

1) Original files are in MS Word, but posted as single file Web pages.  I hope not too much is corrupted.

REVIEW

1) “You're interested in underground rivers?" my friends asked.  "Did you know that...”  Often, I hadn’t a clue.

2) I’m indebted to anyone who critically reads what I’ve written.  Suggestions and corrections are welcomed.  I’m just an engineer.  rheggen@unm.edu.

 

 A cover idea.