Re: [needs proofread] June newsletter

Dear all,

as you can see, webpreview is giving us some problems as when you make a 
new translation it writes over the original one in stead of creating a 
new pad.

Sorry for that, we are trying to fix it.

Best,

Ana

On 6/2/25 05:42, Richard L. Schmeidler wrote:
> On Friday, when I received your message about proofreading and translating
> the June newsletter, I
>
> --  Looked at the webpreview.
>
> -- Saved on my computer the xhtml generated from the webpreview.
>
> -- Saved on my computer the xhtml file you attached.
>
> -- Compared the two xhtml files, and confirmed that there was more in the
>      attached version than the webpreview version.
>
> Now, on Sunday evening (my time), I am starting to proofread.
> However, the webpreview is no longer available in the English
> version I used; what is displayed there is in another language.
>
> So I am proofreading from the xhtml version you attached, in
> order that you will have it in Europe on Monday morning in
> advance of the Tuesday publication.  I am attaching a version
> with my suggestions, but it is in .odt format to get the benefit
> of highlighting my suggestions with the LibreOffice Track
> Changes feature.
>
> 1.  First figure alt text:  "a image of a computer with some lines
> of code"  Replace the first word, "a", with "an."  English grammar.
>
> 2.  "the word copyright on top with a question mark: and"  Replace
> the colon with a semicolon (to match the rest of the punctuation of
> the sentence).
>
> 3.  "a picture with several info material from the fsfe from stickers to
> postcards to posters."
>
> (a)  Remove "several."  English grammar.  "Material" is a non-count
> noun; you cannot have seven or several of them (in the sense in
> in which the word is being used here.  Of course you can have a
> complex object containing several constituent materials, but that
> is a different sense of the word.)  An alternative would be to
> replace "several" with "some."
>
> (b)  Replace "fsfe" with "FSFE."
>
> 4.  "helps users avoid unnecessary costs while encouraging
> device neutrality and user-controlled choices. , "  Remove
> the extraneous comma.
>
> 5.  "Refund4Freedom is one of a broader set of activities promoting end-users'
> rights such as the End of 10 campaign, that encourages users to keep using
> their current hardware by switching to Free Software operating systems."
> Replace "that" with "which."  This is a somewhat obscure rule of English
> grammar:  the description of the End of 10 campaign is what is called a
> "non-restrictive clause," and it should be preceded by the comma and
> "which."
>
> 6.  I am not suggesting a change, but I had no idea what an INI was,
> until I looked it up.
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM Ana Galan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> dear all,
>>
>> the newsletter is ready for your proofread and translation.
>>
>> attached the xhtml.
>>
>> Webpreview is giving me some problems so this is the last version I
>> managed to upload. This version is missing the pictures and the alt text
>> but the rest is the same as the xhtml attached.
>>
>> https://webpreview.fsfe.org/cgi/fsfe.pl?pad=1472
>>
>> We will publish it next Tuesday morning.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Ana
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