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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.

The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.

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



Version Location Description Submitted By
PDF Page 11
2nd paragraph, 4th line

Extra "that" in the line which reads:

(that is, a hyphen that that’s not safe for...

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 32
2nd paragraph in the "The plain Formatting Command" section

The text [, I shall!] should be in italics.

The scope of the i command for the whole sentence - "Or I SHALL scream!, I shall!".

If the [, I shall!] text should be plain then the example code should be changed to {i Or { I {scaps shall {plain scream!, I shall!}}}}

For example:

{ tf1ansideff0 {fonttbl {f0 Times;}}
{pard{i Or { I {scaps shall {plain scream!}}}, I shall!}par}
{pard{i Or { I {scaps shall {plain scream!, I shall!}}}}par}
}

Tested on Win XP using
Word 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3
and
WordPad Version 5.1 SP2
and
OpenOffice 2.1

 Anonymous 
PDF Page 37
1st paragraph, 1st line.

Where the text reads "it produces a é,..." it should actually be "it produces an é,..."

 Anonymous 
PDF Page 38
Last paragraph

Missing the word "to" in the last line:

"But you don’t have «to» use every font that you list
in the font table."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 38
4th (?) paragraph

Here is a font table with four declarations:

the 'four' should read 'three'




Last sentence on the same page

 Eddie Hadley 
Printed Page 38
4th (?) paragraph

Here is a font table with four declarations:

the 'four' should read 'three'




Last sentence on the same page

 Eddie Hadley 
Printed Page 38
4th (?) paragraph


Here is a font table with four declarations:

the 'four' should read 'three'




The last sentence on this page should read 'But you don't have to use . . .'
The 'to' is missing.



Eddie Hadley 
Printed Page 39
4th paragraph

The line 'The syntax for a font table ...'

should read 'The syntax for a color table ...'

 Eddie Hadley 
Printed Page 64
Centering Vertically and Horizontally section

The included code will work for RTF documents opened in MS Word, but
will not work for documents opened in WordPad or in any custom
application's RichTextBox control (as included in Visual Studio 2005),
even if the document is natively rendered to a printer or print preview
control.

 Anonymous