[tlhIngan Hol] wishlist for TKD 3ed

[SuStel]

On 5/1/2023 9:14 AM, Will Martin via tlhIngan-Hol wrote:
> 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.

Re-laying out a book, even electronically, keeps the process more or 
less the same. It's much easier to just add an addendum to the back than 
it is to lay out a whole book all over again. Whether it's done with 
physical plates or on a computer, it's labor-intensive.

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SuStel
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