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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Corrected".

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Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 9.2.3
[Safari version] Section 9.2.3, paragraph 8, first sentence

The symbol or word for "pi" is missing from the end of the sentence, "...with each
release adding the next digit from ."

Anonymous 
Printed Page 83
Figure 5-1

The arrows between the build states Interrupted and Up-to-date, and also between
Clean and Up-to-date, should be double-headed arrows, not single-headed.

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 117
Sidebar "The History of SCons", paragraph 2, first sentence

From Greg Wilson:
> The Software Carpentry project that got SCons going was funded by
> Los Alamos National Laboratory, not Lawrence Livermore.
> (I oughta know I'm the guy who organized and ran it ;-).

Please replace "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" with "Los Alamos National
Laboratory"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 236
second word from top of page

manaually -> manually

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 259
4th paragraph (Link checking)

The W3C link checker is titled "checklint" rather than "checklink".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 283
"Documentation Environments" section

The sentence describing the LaTeX book reads, "This book is also a good example of
how to describe using a documentation tool."

Better wording:

"This book is also a good template to use for writing other books about
documentation tools."

 Anonymous