Jade Knight's thread of Proofreadingishnesses

[The Jade Knight]

"Potential entrants simply place a piece of paper with their name into the Goblet, and the Goblet chooses the three most worthy candidates. But plans hit a bit of a snag when Hogwarts school comes out with not one, but two champions: Cedric Diggory, a handsome and popular boy from Hufflepuff house, and none other than Harry Potter, who is too young to legitimately compete in the tournament."

(From Harry Potter).  I'm unsure if I should edit this to specify that the candidates should be one from each school.  These sentences could potentially be confusing without any sort of explanation.


In addition, I have NO clue who any of the actors are, and the review frequently fails to pair them with the characters, which is confusing for me, and presumably to others.

[Fellfrosch]

Zathura is in dire need of a prooferoo, when you get the time.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Time? There is no TIME!

[Chimera]

Zathura is in dire need of a prooferoo, when you get the time.

"Prooferoo." I think that's my new favorite word.  

[The Jade Knight]

Proofreading now.

Sorry about my slacking lately.  I'm trying to put NaNo first, editing 2nd.  I've generally stayed within a couple of days of releases, though I know this is anything but ideal.  I'll be back on top of things come December.

[Fellfrosch]

I am willing to forgive all for a fellow Nano-er. At least temporarily.

[The Jade Knight]

Thanks.

I have two questions:

"the film' s relationship to <em>Jumanji</em> actually enhances its liability."

What do they mean by "liability"?

And do we capitalize "sci-fi"?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

we capitalize SF, but not sci-fi, unless this starts dissention in the ranks, in which case I'm flexible.

I'm not sure what he means, but what I understand is that because the movie is so similar in concept and structure to Jumanji, it starts off with a few bad marks against it.

[Fellfrosch]

I think he means "likability."

[The Jade Knight]

Saint E, mind starting using em dashes instead of en dashes?

Thanks.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

You should always encode them as &#8212; so they display correctly on other platforms...

[The Jade Knight]

What do you mean by "encode them as"?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

In the html, emdashes should be written as &#8212; instead of as (dash character which doesn't display properly on this forum)

[The Jade Knight]

Oh.  That makes a difference?  That's too bad.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

My typical approach, if I'm paying attention, is just to double dash is -- instead of letting Word take control and assume it knows what I mean better than I do  *shakes fist*
but I can be unlazy and use the html for it. I guess. I hope you know what sacrifice I'm making for this.