[Regia-NA] Member's Handbook

[J K Siddorn]

Hi Pete,

That's most helpful of you Pete and I appreciate it. However, I am in the
middle of arranging to get the updated version printed and delivered to
every member, so I'd be grateful if you did not take a hand at this time.

There are copyright problems with some of the artwork and parts of the text
which I am also doing my best to attend to in order to level the playing
field. Mainly because of copyright entanglements, it is unlikely that freely
available CD's or non-member accessible PDF's will be available from any
web-based source in the immediate future.

None could be more aware than I that the Member's Handbook creates the most
intense interest and attention amongst our Regia members in North America
and in other far flung places. I ask politely that the hard work and joint
efforts of many over the last 18 months are allowed to bear fruit and that
no guns are jumped nor cocks halved ;o))

Finally, I'd not like any to think that we have been sitting on our hands
over this: Joy Cain started the ball rolling in producing the first
electronic text we have had available in ten years and since then various
contributors have been involved in correcting and amending and adding to the
original.

Photographs will replace line art in many cases and it will be a better
product than the old.

I respectfully ask for your continued patience.

Regards,

Kim Siddorn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete James" <peter@citizen.co.uk>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject: RE: [Regia-NA] Member's Handbook


> Hi
>
> At the risk of opening up a can of worms here, I own a copy of the
original
> handbook, and I have a scanner and a pdf creator.
>
> If I was given permission, I could scan it, pdf it, burn it onto a cd and
> send it to Cafeshops http://www.cafepress.com .
>
> They would happily sell hard copies of the pdf printed into a book (about
> $15 ex. post), or copies of the data CD (about $5 ex. post) via post and
> credit card, to anyone with access to the internet and a credit card.
>
> I reckon I could have the PDF book available through my Cafeshops account
> (no mark-up, base price only) by next weekend (27th ?) or a Data CD by
about
> 6/7 December (depending on post)
>
> If it helps I'll even pay the cost of the CD and the postage to California
> myself.
>
>
> Pete
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joy Cain [mailto:jcain@insight.rr.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:18 PM
> To: list-regia-na@lig.net
> Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Member's Handbook
>
>
> May I suggest that you investigate printing places that have Docutechs?
> Kinkos and other quick-print places have them. They allow you to
> "print-on-demand" allowing you to do smaller quantities from disk. The
> upside to this being that you don't have to warehouse lots of books that
> you may make changes to.
>
> Thanks for your compliment, too!
>
> Joy
>
> On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 04:54 AM, Steve Etheridge wrote:
>
> > I have ( as I am sure that some others do) the text of the original
> > handbook on my PC at home.  When I have dug it out from various boxes,
> > screwed all the hard-drives back in place and then sorted out the mess
> > that is my phone line this should be available.
> >
> > I was going to make some comment about giving it a light edit, then
> > realised that this was impossible.  There is much that is good in it,
> > and much that needs revising, so if a net version is to be used, it had
> > better go out "as is" with a simple health warning.
> >
> > I beleive that it was Joy Cain who originally did the scans and OCR of
> > the handbook, and I beleive that she is on this group - and deserves a
> > lot of credit for her hard work on this.
> >
> > The new handbook will be published and maintaned in installments, as it
> > will be easier to produce and maintain than one large book.  These
> > installments will (hopefully) also be available electronically.  There
> > are a few installments nearly ready to go.
> >
> >
> > Steve
> >
> >> Thanks for your offer of assistance Robert.
> >> If there is a need I'll be in contact.
> >> Thanks
> >> Martin
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Robert Neidlinger" <noid341@yahoo.com>
> >> To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:58 AM
> >> Subject: [Regia-NA] Member's Handbook
> >>
> >>
> >> > I too would be willing to help with the formatting and
> >> > writing to pdf if that task ever came to be.  I
> >> > generally work in pagemaker and can easily write to
> >> > pdf.  If this task were to be split up into sections
> >> > it could be accomplished in fairly short order I would
> >> > think.  If there is any actual interest in doing it.
> >> >
> >> > Robert
> >> >
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