[tlhIngan Hol] wishlist for TKD 3ed

[Will Martin]

I think you missed the nature of the suggestion. I think the suggestion was that it become a second addendum to the second edition.

That may or may not be relevant.

The reason the second edition had everything in an addendum is that, in those days, pages were printed with printing presses. You did all the electronic stuff to create all the text and illustrations and instead of using a laser printer to print the book, you created physical rotating drums that were inked and rolled over moving sheets of paper. It was cheaper to create more drums for the addendum pages and keep using the old drums for the first edition pages than it would have been to replace all the drums.

I’m pretty sure that they print books electronically now. Maybe I’m wrong. Whenever old technologies have economic reasons to survive, they stick around. I’m not sure if the current TKD is a set of physical plates/drums or just a digital file sent to a printer.

I was offered the plates for my guitar book once the publisher decided to not do a 3rd printing, but I didn’t own space big enough to store them, so when I decided to do an E-book through Apple Books via Lulu, I had to go back to the physical book, scan everything, separate the illustrations and text, re-edit the text to fix the errors I’d discovered years earlier and to get the text to flow better, reinsert the illustrations, etc., and even then, they wouldn’t take the original cover, so instead of paying Lulu for a new one I didn’t like as much, it has a plain, yellow cover and the 1st inside page has the old cover art…

… but I digress.

Anyway, the publisher would probably either start with a new book, if printing is more electronic, or add a second addendum if it is still mechanical.

pItlh

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> On Apr 30, 2023, at 9:02 PM, De'vID via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:27 AM Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org <mailto:tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org>> wrote:
>> One other possibility is of course to make an "addendum" version book,
>> which completes the 2nd edition instead of replacing it. Did anyone
>> think about that?
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> *sigh* Yes, that's the backup plan. If we complete a draft of TKD3ed and the publisher doesn't want it, we discussed ripping out the "new" parts as a separate book. That's undesirable because (1) more work, and (2) you need two books instead of one for a description of the complete grammar. (Technically, you'd still need KGT as well, but the new TKD will refer to KGT in, e.g., section 4.2.8 {-neS}, so that you could *look things up* in TKD and be sure that it didn't miss anything.)
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