User:Pfeng

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I'm Erica. I like many aspects of DP, but am beginning to get addicted to PP most of all :-)

Here are projects I've PPed so far:

• El Diablo
• Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases
• A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis
• LRL Accelerators: The 184-inch synchrocyclotron
• House Rats and Mice
• A Modern Buccaneer
• Dr. Hardhack's Prescription
• Various University of Kansas zoology publications
  • A new subspecies of wood rat (Neotoma Mexicana) from Colorado
  • Pleistocene Pocket Gophers From San Josecito Cave, Nuevo León, México
  • Natural History of the Brush Mouse (Peromyscus boylii) in Kansas With Description of a New Subspecies
  • The Baculum in the Chipmunks of Western North America
  • Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies
  • Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California
  • Five Natural Hybrid Combinations in Minnows (Cyprinidae)
• Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science
• Owen's Moral Physiology (Glover's Edition) -- currently missing pages 117 and 118! Are you visiting the Library of Congress?

Useful things in PP work:

• Dropbox

I have provided content for one project so far:

• Hookers -- currently Waiting for F2

And of course I've proofed and foofed many others!

Transcriber's Note example (from jhellingman, posted in the forums http://www.pgdp.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=33848)

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|  DISCLAIMER                                                             |
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|  The medical knowledge represented in this book is over a century old.  |
|  The publication of this book is for historical interest only, and is   |
|  not to be construed as a medical advice by Project Gutenberg, its      |
|  board of directors, or its volunteers. Prescriptions should not be     |
|  applied without consulting trained medical professionals. Medical      |
|  science has made considerable progress since this book was written.    |
|  Recommendations or prescriptions may have been superseded by better    |
|  alternatives, or invalidated altogether.                               |
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Transcriber's Note example for scaled images

The proportion (x2) in the figure caption is taken from the original text;
actual sizes may be larger or smaller, depending on your monitor.

Basics of zip files

"The ZIP file format is a data compression and archive format." A zip file is a regular file that has been compressed ("zipped up") so it takes less space. There are various computer algorithms that do this automatically. If you're interested in the mechanics of the zipping and unzipping process, there's plenty of advanced material available. If you just need to know how to get into (or how to create) a zip file, this brief discussion will hopefully help.

How NOT to open a zip file

File extensions are like nametags -- if you meet a person wearing a tag that says "Hi My Name is Bob", you assume his name is Bob. In the same way, your computer assumes that a file that ends in .zip is a zip file that was created using a certain compression algorithm.

Therefore, you can't just rename "sample.zip" to "sample.txt". Imagine that Bob changed his nametag to read "Hi My Name is Fred" -- he would still be Bob, but everybody would assume his name is Fred. Similarly, your computer assumes that a file ending in .txt is a plain text file with no compression. When it tries to read the contents, it will expect certain formatting and information in the file that is simply not there, and then give an error.

So simply changing the name of the file will not give you the result you want. For the same reason, we'll now learn...

how NOT to make a zip file

You can't just rename "sample.txt" to "sample.zip" and expect that your file is now zipped. It's still a text file, but with a different name. Zip files need to be compressed (which is the entire point of having a zip file) and a name change is not enough to do that. You'll need software to do the compression for you, creating a whole new file.

If you try to make a sample.zip file and find that you're missing the original sample.txt file when you're finished, you've probably done it the wrong way.

Mentor Templates

I have been looking at some pages you proofed in the first round. You have made a wonderful start at proofing. Congratulations!

Your proofreading is perfect except for only one thing. Don't forget to remove the page header information at the top of the page: see http://www.pgdp.net/c/faq/proofreading_guidelines.php#page_hf

It's great to see a beginning proofreader doing such good work. Keep it up! :D