Re: [needs proofread & translation] July newsletter

Many thanks, Richard!

Converted .odt in simple text file (attached), and updated accordingly 
https://webpreview.fsfe.org/?pad=1494

Luca

On 08/07/25 06:44, Richard L. Schmeidler wrote:
> Thank you, Luca, for your speedy and helpful work on my proofreading.
> 
> I have taken your .xhtml attachment, and I now see -- and I hope that I 
> will remember -- that at least on the notebook running Microsoft Windows 
> (ugh!) that I am using away from home I can use LibreOffice to see it 
> fully displayed.  I find the fully displayed version much more 
> comfortable to proofread, and it may actually help me to find more 
> suggestions to make when I am not spending much of my time ignoring the 
> markup language.
> 
> So I am proofreading using LibreOffice.  I am also attaching my .odt 
> version of that file that reflects the suggestions I am now making.
> 
> I am not using the webpreview that you also so kindly sent.  That is 
> inherently a moving target, and I do not have the time in the middle of 
> my night to deal with moving target issues.  I will be spending enough 
> time first responding to you and then proofreading.
> 
> My responses to what you wrote are interspersed, below my new suggestions.
> 
> 1.  "Learn more about the latest developments surrounding the Digital 
> Markets Act and take a few minutes to share your perspective in our 
> Interoperability Survey, and listen to the newest episode of our 
> podcast."   Replace the first occurrence of "and" (after "Act") with a 
> comma.  This is the normal way to punctuate a list of three items.  I 
> can see no reason for abnormality here, although deliberate abnormality 
> can be desirable.
> 
> 2.  Table of Contents:  "From the stages to your screen: videos from the 
> last conferences"  I suggest replacing "last" with "latest."  If these 
> were the last conferences ever to be held, "last" would be correct.  
> Since we all hope that there will be more, I think that "latest" is 
> better, although in this specific case "last" is not incorrect.  My #4, 
> below, is consistent with this suggestion.  (I regularly suggest 
> replacing "last" with "latest."  English usage is inconsistent.  We do 
> say "last Wednesday" and "last year."  To quote the analysis of "last/ 
> latest" in the fourth edition of Fowler's Modern English Usage [2015], 
> "It is obvious, therefore, that if there is any danger of contextual 
> ambiguity some word other than /last /should be used."  Here, ambiguity 
> is not really a problem, but I still prefer "latest.")
> 
> If you have read this far, let me make an offer that I have made 
> occasionally to the FSFE translators.  I will be delighted to send any 
> of you a copy of this valuable reference work if you will send me your 
> address.  I find it sufficiently useful -- as in this instance -- that I 
> brought one of my copies along on a five-week vacation trip because I 
> expected to do some proofreading for the FSFE.
> 
> 3.  This is not an issue in the text of the newsletter, but in the 
> markup language.  "in Danish in<br/>both the book and the movie."  The 
> "<br/>" should be replaced by a text space.  I do not know where the  
> "<br/>" comes from, or what it means.
> 
> 4.  Heading:  "From the stages to your screen: videos from the last 
> conferences" I suggest replacing "last" with "latest." This is 
> consistent with my #2 above.
> 
> 5.  Caption:  "The FSFE team and volunteers during Summer Meeting 2025 
> at the Software Freedom Flat terrace"  Replace "during Summer Meeting 
> 2025 at the Software Freedom Flat terrace" with  "at the Software 
> Freedom Flat terrace during Summer Meeting 2025".  As it stands, this 
> indicates that the summer meeting took place entirely on the terrace.
>

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