Re: If you had only 1 hour to learn onscreen editing...

["Edwin Skau" <eddy -dot- skau -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Going strictly bu the subject line...

If I had one hour to learn onscreen editing, here's what I'd want to know:

- How is it different from the editing I do now?
- What are the advantages and tradeoffs.
- Critical gotchas and aha!s.
- Tool/process/workflow possibilities
- Online references and other sources of information (your book perhaps?)

Jean Hollis Weber had a book title Editing Online Documents on  her website
years ago, and I found that informative and useful then. Can't seem to find
it now (*that* Web page or book.)

Edwin







On Dec 20, 2007 9:12 PM, Geoff Hart <ghart -at- videotron -dot- ca> wrote:

> ... what topics would you want covered?
>
> I've been asked to give a presentation on onscreen editing at next
> year's STC conference (http://www.stc.org/55thConf/index.asp), which
> is great. The downside is that they are now using 1-hour timeslots,
> which is too short to really cover the topic. I can have one time
> slot for sure, and possibly a second slot (but probably not). This
> means I'd only be able to cover 3 or 4 topics in depth, rather than
> trying to cover a bunch of topics shallowly and not really saying
> anything other than generalities.
>
> So I thought I'd talk to you folks to find out what topics you find
> most vexing and would most appreciate learning. What are your top
> three choices for topics? If nothing immediately comes to mind,
> please see the table of contents of my book for inspiration: http://
> www.geoff-hart.com/home/onscreen-book.htm#toc
>
> Please send me your top three choices off-list (for simplicity, you
> could simply name the three chapters), and I'll summarize to both
> lists (CEL and techwr-l) in a couple days. I'm looking for the three
> things you feel would most improve your life as a working editor (or
> peer reviewer if your job is mainly to write).
>
> If you're in Philadelphia and would like to arrange a more intensive
> workshop before or after the conference (late May or ca. June 5),
> drop me a line privately and we'll talk.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
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> www.geoff-hart.com
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