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Subject:RE: Minding their Ps and Qs at Jasc From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:11:56 -0400
You're looking for "shear."
The index lists "shear" on p. 245.
Nothing about the word or concept of "shear" appears on p. 245, but it *is*
discussed on p. 243.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bonnie Granat
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:07 PM
> To: Goldstein, Dan; TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: Minding their Ps and Qs at Jasc
>
> Goldstein, Dan wrote:
> > I've got a brand new copy of Paint Shop Pro 8 with a brand new
> > manual, right out of the box. Guess what? The index pagination is
> > incorrect.
> >
> > It should have been an easy error to detect and an easy error to fix
> > before they printed the manual. It can be a big problem for anyone
> > who wants to actually use the index. ("What you're looking for isn't
> > actually on that page, but it's in that general vicinity.")
> >
> > Very sad.
>
> To me, when you say "index pagination," I understand you to mean the
> page numbers of the pages on which the index entries appear. But then
> your next paragraph seems to be talking about the entries themselves.
> Can you clarify that for me?
>
> Bonnie Granat
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