[Regia-NA] Member's Handbook

Thu, 20 Nov 2003 13:41:44 -0500

Sounds like it'll be worth the wait!

Thanks to everyone who's had a hand in this, as it also sounds like a
tremendous group effort!

--charlotte mayhew

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J K Siddorn" <kim.siddorn@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <list-regia-na@lig.net>
Cc: "Regia UK E-group" <regia@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Regia-NA] Member's Handbook

> 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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