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ANNOUNCE: ----MADCAP ROAD SHOW-----

Get ready! MadCap Software will soon be 
visiting a city near you!

Mike Hamilton, MadCap Software VP of 
Product Management, will be hosting 
a half-day overview and training 
event in the following US cities:

San Diego - June 25
San Francisco - June 27
Seattle - June 29
Chicago - July 9
Houston - July 11
Toronto - July 16
New York - July 18
Boston - July 20
Pittsburgh - July 23
Washington DC - July 25
Atlanta - July 27 
  
The value-packed half-day event will cover:

Overview
- About MadCap Software 
- What products does MadCap Software offer? 
- What industry problems can MadCap help you solve? 

Building a Strong Documentation Foundation
- Sound authoring principles 
- Ways to leverage existing documentation 
- Great techniques for creating links 
- Modern strategies to help users find more 
  relevant and reliable information 
- Simple yet powerful options for 
  publishing and distributing information 
  to users 

Writing Smarter and Working Less with Single-Sourcing
- What is single-sourcing and multi-channel publishing? 
- How can single-sourcing make me more efficient?    
- Tools and techniques to make it happen
- Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices 

Success factors from the industry experts 
- The latest techniques and the latest tools 
- Avoiding authoring pitfalls 

For more details please visit:
http://www.madcapsoftware.com/company/events.aspx

Early registrants, secure your seat for the 
low cost of only $69. 
In addition to refreshments and other 
MadCap gifts, all attendees will receive
an $89 credit towards the purchase of 
MadCap Flare or MadPak.

Space is limited, please book your seat now!
Call sales at: (858) 320-0387 or mailto:sales -at- madcapsoftware -dot- com

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ANNOUNCE: New book on scientific editing

Subtleties of Scientific Style fills the gaps left by other style
guides and books on editing. Here, Matthew Stevens, an Australian
scientific editor, distils over two decades of experience, 
explaining subtle but significant errors that authors can make 
and many subtle tricks that can make a work more readable. 

Topics include:

* Achieving an editorial Gestalt
* Common errors-danglers, fillers, misapplied modifiers, 
  shortcuts
* Errors of reasoning-begging the question, teleology, size 
  comparisons
* Expression-first-person science, order of events, parallel 
  narratives
* Tricky terms-applied, based on, due to, respectively

Contents
  What is science?
  Substantive editing
  Common errors
  Errors of substance or sequence
  Errors of reasoning
  Improving expression
  Improving visual presentation
  Tricky or misused terms
  Errors in classical languages
  Appendix 1-Editing techniques
  Appendix 2-Wordy phrases
  Appendix 3-British or US spelling?
  Appendix 4-Unicode values and non-displaying characters
  Appendix 5-Character charts in logical groupings
  Bibliography

You can download a copy from http://www.zeta.org.au/~mls/subtleties.h
tml 
(US$6, A$7 shareware). Hard copies will be available soon for 
order (112 pp B5, ~200 g, US$12, A$15 + postage).

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