Steve Hayman <sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> (07/14/90)
So, my NeXT showed up and I've unpacked it and I'm having a great time with this machine, and I noticed something a litle odd. The cube comes with a large NeXT brochure that many of you may have seen - a big square book with a photo of the cube on the front and back. One of the pages describes the Digital Librarian. It's accompanied by a photo of a stack of 26 books. Only 5 of the books have their spines turned so that you can see what book it is. These are William Shakespeare - The Complete Works The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus so far so good, and The Chicago Manual of Style Now my question is, what happened to the latter? The first four books are all distributed online with each system. My theory is that this photo was taken early on in the machine's development and at some later point the Chicago Manual of Style was dropped from the distribution. But that's only my theory. Steve -- Steve Hayman Workstation Manager Computer Science Department Indiana U. sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (812) 855-6984
chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) (07/15/90)
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: > The Chicago Manual of Style >Now my question is, what happened to the latter? The first four >books are all distributed online with each system. It is in there. Run Webster and click on the contents menu cell. Look for "A Handbook of style". Chris -- "I've got good news. The gum you like is going to come back in style." -- Chris Whatley - Research Systems Administrator UT-Austin Mathematics E-mail: chari@math.utexas.edu (NeXT) Ph: (O):512/471-7711 (H):512/499-0475
jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (07/15/90)
sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: > The Chicago Manual of Style / comp.sys.next / chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) / Jul 14 1990/ > It is in there. Run Webster and click on the contents menu cell. Look > for "A Handbook of style". That's not it. The Chicago Manual of Style is a 1.5-inch-think book, published by the University of Chicago Press. Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob
daugher@cs.tamu.edu (Dr. Walter C. Daugherity) (07/15/90)
In article <chari.647983368@fireant.ma.utexas.edu> chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) writes: >sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >> The Chicago Manual of Style >>Now my question is, what happened to the latter? The first four >>books are all distributed online with each system. > >It is in there. Run Webster and click on the contents menu cell. Look >for "A Handbook of style". > Sorry, that's "A Handbook of Style," not "The Chicago Manual of Style," which is much more substantial. In fact, under "Documentation of Sources" it even says "For more detailed information, The Chicago Manual of Style, 13th edition, and the MLA Style Sheet may be consulted." I think my grad students would really benefit from having the real thing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Walter C. Daugherity Internet, NeXTmail: daugher@cs.tamu.edu Knowledge Systems Research Center uucp: uunet!cs.tamu.edu!daugher Texas A & M University BITNET: DAUGHER@TAMVENUS College Station, TX 77843-3112 CSNET: daugher%cs.tamu.edu@RELAY.CS.NET ---Not an official document of Texas A&M---
dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter) (07/15/90)
In article <chari.647983368@fireant.ma.utexas.edu> chari@math.utexas.edu (Christopher M. Whatley) writes: >sahayman@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steve Hayman) writes: >> The Chicago Manual of Style > >>Now my question is, what happened to the latter? The first four >>books are all distributed online with each system. > >It is in there. Run Webster and click on the contents menu cell. Look >for "A Handbook of style". > >Chris The Chicago Manual of Style is a 738 book! What you see in Websters is just a brief section on style included in the dictionary, not a copy of the Chicago Manual of Style. I too would like to know what happened to it. I noticed in the picture and wondered the same thing as Steve Hayman. I wonder if there is any chance that it will show up in 2.0? -- =============================================================== David Carpenter dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP St. Joseph's University dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu Philadelphia, PA 19131
jmann@bigbootay.sw.stratus.com (Jim Mann) (07/20/90)
The style manual hiding behind the Webster contents menu is NOT the Chicago Manual of Style. I just compared what was there to my hard copy of the Chicago Manual, and they are not the same (or even close). Jim