[Coco] cocomag: UnderColor completion

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Sun Oct 12 18:46:36 EDT 2008


tim lindner wrote:
> Yesterday all the tasks in digitizing UnderColor were completed. It took
> 36 day from start to finish. I'd like to thank everyone who piched in to
> help.
> 
> <http://cocomag.dyndns.org/UnderColor.shtml>
> 
> As planned the data will eventually pushed on the CoCo wiki. I'm more
> than half way building the script to push the data over.
> 
> <http://www.coco25.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page>
> 
> At that point, anyone will be able to further clean up the articles.
> Some articles have their tables and firgures ommitted so any interested
> person and improve the article in that and other ways.
> 
> The next magazine I am considering doing is: "The World of 68' Micros".
> I am open to suggestions on how the web app might be changed to better
> fit the digitization of that magazine.
> 
> *** Some stats
> 
> Under Color:
> 
> 11 Issues.
> 28 pages per issue.
> 5 to 7 articles per issue.
> 
> 4,442 tasks were created.
> 5,863 tasks were submitted.
> 
> This means every task was worked 1.32 times. That is about what I
> expected.
> 

  I spent a large amount of time formatting listings prior to 
proofreading. This was absolutely necessary with assembly source code.
  It would help immensely if tabs could be set and used rather than 
having to enter spaces.

While the hand formatting seemed to stick for a second and third pass of 
proofreading, none of it is now present when looking at the accomplished 
tasks. Has it all been lost?

There was some trouble with the OCR rendering of ' and ". Neither the 
Coco nor my browser used for proofreading can make use of opening and 
closing '" as for example Microsoft Word does. The OCR program mixed up 
opening, closing, and straight forms of the above. Since the end result 
probably will be cut and pasted into a Coco, I converted all opening, 
closing forms into straight. It would be nice not to need to do that.



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