User Guide small corrections (Rev #27, changes)

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User Guide small corrections

This page is for contributors to log small subediting errors (e.g. spelling and punctuation) that they have spotted in the current draft User Guide. Please report potential corrections under the date of the User Guide version you are reading, giving PPP/ppp where
PPP is the sequential page number of the PDF, and
ppp is the ‘printed’ page number in the document,
adding some immediate context (rather than a line number).

Page cross references are only periodically regenerated, so it is not necessary to point out apparently out-of-order page numbers.

User Guide draft 29-Jan-2017

One single opening quote and many single closing quotes or apostrophes are showing as ë and í respectively (but only in paragraph headings) on pages:
41/19, 200/168, 231/199, 322/290, 397/365, 402/370 (automatically repeated in some page-top headings).

Chapter 12 ‘Managing the desktop’ appears at 99/107 which is between chapter 9 (71/49) and chapter 10 (109/77).

User Guide draft 08-May-2017

Chapter 16 (179/161) appears before chapter 15 (203/155) and shares some of the same printed page numbers (for example, both chapters have a page 161). There is a reference to page 161 on the first page of chapter 15 (203/155); make sure that this points to the first page of chapter 16.

User Guide draft 20-May-2017

500/466: The first sentence states that HForm is in the Utilities directory; it’s actually in Utilities.Caution.

User Guide draft 26-Jun-2017

275/251: The list of fonts includes “Sydney”; it’s actually “Sidney”. Note that the rendered example is also wrong.

User Guide draft 10-Sep-2017

60/36 and 141/117 both refer to “harddisc” whereas all other references say “hard disc”.

User Guide draft 23-Nov-2017

45/21: The photos in the Draw example have gone “blocky”.

152/132: This chapter hasn’t yet been formally updated, but this page is missing two instances of “with” in the phrase “it is compatible with RISC OS”.

180/160: This page suggests running the Utilities.Access.!Access+ application, however this is not part of the standard HardDisc4 distribution. Do we need a note on how to get this app (or are the instructions out of date?) – apologies if this is not actually a “small correction” :)

203/183: The third paragraph of “Selecting OmniClient’s protocols” should say “to enable the LAN Manager change its selection line to say”.

261/241: The Apps icon is cropped and is only showing the top-left corner.

User Guide draft 02-Dec-17

37/13: “Using the keyboard”, “Moving around a document”, “End”, should be “moves the caret to the end of the document”, not “to the start”.

User Guide draft 30-Dec-17

There are a few references to the Welcome Guide; does this still exist (or is it intended to)? The references are on pages 19/xix, 86/64, 108/88 and 145/127. Ed: Yes, hardware manufacturers should provide a Welcome Guide, or similarly titled booklet, describing the equipment (not the OS)

37/13 refers to “writable menu boxes” – this should be “writable menu options” so that the terminology is consistent with that formally introduced on page 52/30.

40/18: Change “pinboard” to “Pinboard” as it appears to be a proper name. This also appears on 65/43 (second paragraph of step 2) and 126/106. Ed: Style Guide refers to “the pinboard” except where referring to the task name

105/83 also refers to “menu box” instead of “menu option”. Finally, the Index on 595/579’s very last entry also has “boxes”.

113/93 says “USB port” but this should be “USB socket” for consistency with other mentions.

User Guide draft 11-Jan-18

24/xxiv – States ‘Your supplier should have the following products available’. Perhaps this should explicitly refer to ROOL e.g. “RISC OS Open Limited also supplies the following documentation:”

User Guide draft 12-Jan-18

-453/437 “Points are awarded for each complete horizontal line” is incorrect and should read, “One point is awarded for each block put into place”

-453/437 “The colours of the blocks correspond to their arrangement, so with practice you
will become familiar with the colours and how that shape might be useful to your
game.” That statement is spurious. The colour of the blocks gives you no more useful information than their shape does. It should be deleted.

-454/438 “Pressing the Space bar causes the currently falling block to immediately drop into
place which may not seem useful, but the time saved gives you a little extra time to
think about the next block that you must place.” should simply read “Pressing the Space bar causes the currently falling block to immediately drop into
place.” as what follows is spurious advice. No extra time is gained by dropping blocks into place early by pressing the Space bar.

User Guide draft 14-Jan-18

-40/18 I’m continuing to review the benign areas of the user guide and I’m not finding many problems. But to demonstrate I am actually reading the chapters and not just putting my name against them I’ll make a pedantic observation here: where in the “Iconise icon” section it says “stuck on the pinboard”, that should really be “stuck to the pinboard”.