Typos and Proofreading Errors
Discussions focus on typos, factual errors, and proofreading mistakes in technical articles, books, papers, and manuals, with commenters pointing them out and authors often acknowledging and committing to fixes.
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Show me a manual without errata and I'll show you a blank page ... and the blank page will have a mistake :)
Probably copy/paste errors (in editorial) mixed with deadlines mixed with no QA.
Good catch! Making copy errors in my own copy edit heh.
You're perfectly right, I've reworked the text several times and these mistake slipped through the proofreading. Thanks for pointing them out.
Agreed. Now kindly point to the mistakes the author has made so others can learn from them.
Author here! Thank you so much for flagging this - it’s amazing what can sneak through so many proof reading attempts. We’ll get this fixed.
it will be oil on fire, and you guys will already downvoted me into oblivion, but the truth is the same, the paper has several typos, which makes in unquestionable that it did not see a spell-checker.
Yeah, it's clearly an error on author's side.
Books can have mistakes. Other editions could correct these mistakes, provide more elegant proofs, more fruitful approaches to solving problems, more understandable language, or more standard terminology.
Human error for TC not having a (competent) copy editor, maybe.