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Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 138
2nd paragraph

Hi Ken,

not sure if you wanted it per email/Facebook or via this system. I am guessing this system provides proper tracking at least. :)

The last sentence reads:

Note from the Author or Editor:
The suggested correction is appropriate, except that "level" should be "Level" (capitalized). Thank you.

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven 
Printed Page 354
Voice Input > First Para > Last 5 words plus footnote.

Apple's old Chinese Dictation Kit was released in 1995 but as far as I know has not been available for many years now, and there is nothing equivalent for OS X. The footnote url is not valid.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Remove the footnote, which is a stale URL, and insert "now-outdated" before "Chinese Dictation Kit."

Tom Gewecke 
Printed Page 536
Adobe Pagemaker section, para 1, line 4

Pagemaker is not really "available for Mac OS X". It's a Mac OS app which (like any other) can be used in Classic mode on some older OS X systems. Classic mode is no longer support in 10.5 or on Intel Macs.

Note from the Author or Editor:
PageMaker's status is effectively equivalent to that of FrameMaker in terms of its ability to run on Mac OS X, and the text will be adjusted to state this.

Tom Gewecke 
Printed Page 650
2nd para from top, regarding MS Word for Mac, last sentence.

MS Word for Mac, English version, 2004 and 2008, can do vertical and ruby text, after activation via the Microsoft Language Register.

http://www.yale.edu/chinesemac/pages/applications.html#Office_2008

Note from the Author or Editor:
Change the "I have yet to discover this functionality in the English version of Microsoft Word, at least for the Mac OS X version." sentence to the following: "Japanese functionality can be enabled in the English version of Microsoft Word for Mac OS X by using the Microsoft Language Register application that is included with Microsoft Office."

Tom Gewecke 
Printed Page 693
Table 12-1, line 1 and footnote to line 3 on p 694

The references I have seen on this question put Mac OS X proper in the LF category. TextEdit uses LF and not CR (as was used by Mac OS).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representations

Note from the Author or Editor:
The change from CR to LF for Mac OS X seems to have been done incrementally. Of course, Mac OS 9 and earlier used CR line endings. With each subsequent release of Mac OS X, it seems that more and more components generate LFs instead of CRs for line endings. TextEdit in particular must have been only recently changed in this regard, because I used a shell script in the Terminal application to change CRs to LFs for text files made using TextEdit. I am sure that some thid-party applications still generate CR line endings.

Tom Gewecke 


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