Monday, January 27, 2014

More Chapters for the Third Edition of _Machinery_

I have just webbed two more drafts of chapters for the third edition, along with the appendix, which benefited from suggestions made in comments to an earlier post. More comments are welcome. In particular:

Have I left anything out of the appendix that should be there? For the most part I do not include books I have not read, with a few exceptions.

In the second edition, I included addresses for magazines and organizations. This time I replaced them with URL's. Is there any good reason to have both?

A few items in the appendix are shown crossed out, magazines or organizations that I think, but am not certain, no longer exist. Let me know if I am wrong.

Don't bother to tell me that I am inconsistent about the punctuation for article titles, sometimes using single quotes and sometimes double quotes. The previous edition used single quotes, double quotes seem more natural to me, I changed a few then stopped on the theory that my publisher will tell me their style preferences.

Are there any topics I should cover in the new chapters and don't? They should probably be topics I have written on in the past, here or elsewhere. There are a great many other subjects worth discussing, but this is a book, not a library.

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