Errata

The third item of the list describing syntax elements of PDF document states:

"Strings, introduced with brackets, like (The Quick Brown Fox)."

The word 'brackets' here is somewhat misleading, since '(' and ')' characters are commonly referred to as parentheses, and this term is used in PDF Specification as well. Moreover, PDF strings can be actually introduced with brackets (i.e., '<' and '>' characters), but it is a distinct syntax not mentioned in the book.

So, even if it is not technically a mistake, I'd suggest to replace 'brackets' with 'parentheses' here and in similar occurrences in the text.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Changed language at this location and throughout text. Confusion about international use of bracket/brace/parenthesis on my part.

Since it's Mobi format, it has no page number, but it's at Location 368 of 2599 or 14%. It's in page number 8 of Chapter 1 in corresponding PDF version (real page number is 24 of 142), although this is already correct in PDF version.

In a bracket, it is currently
> (eXtensible Markup Langauge)

It should be
> (eXtensible Markup Language)

The typo is at "Language".

Note from the Author or Editor:
Thanks. The source is indeed correct, but there was some problem with the generation of the .mobi - it's being regenerated now.

"psuedocode" should read "pseudocode"

Note from the Author or Editor:
Fixed in production SVN.

feast:current john$ grep "psuedocode" *.xml
ch03.xml: <para>The following recursive data structure, given in psuedocode, can
feast:current john$ mvim ch03.xml
feast:current john$ svn commit
Sending ch03.xml
Transmitting file data .

Committed revision 580464.

In the third row, the parameter for Horizontal Spacing is listed as "Th", but under Operators, it says "Tz sets the horizontal scaling".
That's confusing.

It's also confusing to have the letters following the "T" in the table listed as subscripts under the Parameter heading, but described without subscript under "Operators" column.

Also "T", subscript "mode" is defined as "rendering mode", and described later as "Tr sets the text rendering mode to "render, an integer". Which leads one to wonder if there are other possible modes to use here than "r".

It's hard to tell what is code and what is variable values in this table.

It would be more clear if there were a sample use column.
e.g
"Tw 2" for Word spacing.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Hi Margery,

Thank-you for writing.

I have checked, and the table is correct. It is an amalgam of two tables from the ISO standard.

You are right, though, that it's a little confusing. Not least because the parameter names are not referenced in the following text at all.

If O'Reilly choose to fix it, I think an appropriate fix is to:

a) Delete the first column of the table; and then
b) Rename the (now first) column heading from "Description" to "Parameter"

I have marked this erratum as "Confirmed" in the system, but I leave it up to O'Reilly to decide whether action is warranted.

John