User Guide: Call for Errata

[Richard Gaskin]

Thanks, Kay.  And thanks for the CC - lets me keep all these notes in 
one place.

Please feel free to pass along any other details you come across.

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  LiveCode Community Manager
  richard at livecode.org


Kay C Lan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> wrote:
>
>> To make sure we cover any errors and omissions you've seen, please send a
>> brief description with the page number to me at the email address below.
>>
>> Bug #12450
>
> Also, ALL references to Mac OS should be removed. LC 7 & 8 will not run on
> OS 9 so references should only be made to OS X. Both the User Guide and the
> Dictionary suffer badly from inconsistency of the use of the term Mac OS -
> sometimes it's referring specifically to OS 9 and at other times it means
> both 9 and X.
>
> Page 258 of the User Guide, under The layer of menu buttons: makes
> reference to both Mac OS and OS X
> Same Page but the next Para down, under Changing Menus Dynamically: only
> refers to Mac OS, but the statement also applies to OS X.
>
> To add to the inconsistency the User Guide (I haven't seen it in the
> Dictionary) also occasionally uses the term Mac OS Classic - see Page 259,
> top line but in the very next paragraph return to using Mac OS to refer to
> OS 9.
>
> Again, moving forward there should only be one term, either Mac OS X or
> just OS X and ALL content applicable ONLY to OS 9 should be removed.
>
> I've CC'd your other email as requested but posted here as it may trigger
> some more useful comments on what needs attention.
>
> Thanks for taking on this task... it's a BIG one.