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Old 11-19-2007, 10:17 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by Alex View Post
And then there's the question (and I know I'm taking this way too seriously for what was essentially a "isn't the world silly stupid sometimes" story) of counting methodology. Say they did a last minute edit to the Chapter 12 introduction, shortening it by one page but failed to refresh the index so now half of all the index references are off by one page. Is that 1 error or 873?
Well, from a printer's perspective, it would be 873. Because that is how many changes we would have to make.

Speaking from experience as we just had to deal with this recently (although in this case, it only affected 7 pages because that was how long the index was).
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