This is the talk page for Greg Reddick.
My main interests are revolve around history, particularly Mesoamerican. I am an expert on the Maya Calendar, having written the calendar program that many prominent Maya scholars such as Michael Coe use. I have attended the Maya Meetings in Austin every year since 1994. I have also done considerable research on the Dresden Codex Venus Pages.
Rather belatedly (after a time away from W.) I see that you removed some words from the Jack Vance - Integral Edition section concerning editing errors and editorial choices. The whole purpose of the Integral Edition project was to collect all of Jack Vance's writings, and produce a text free from all errors. Misprints, mistypes, misplaced or lost text, and so forth. The fascinating project involved hundreds of participants (described in issues of the project's fan magazine Cosmopolis) and as a long-time fan of Jack Vance's writings, I spent some $4,000 to acquire a set of the six volumes, hoping thereby that Perfection of Reading - is possible. Alas, there proved to be typesetting errors and editorial changes away from the True Text, directly failing the intent of the project. This seemed to me to be worthy of note, indeed, the preparation of the text seemed noteworthy as well, being so unusual. The Integral Edition text is of course being used in republications, and so, these errors are likely being disseminated. Just today, I found another error, "exhaltation" (in Wyst: Alastor 1719, in the second column of page 410 of volume VI) NickyMcLean ( talk) 11:55, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
This is the talk page for Greg Reddick.
My main interests are revolve around history, particularly Mesoamerican. I am an expert on the Maya Calendar, having written the calendar program that many prominent Maya scholars such as Michael Coe use. I have attended the Maya Meetings in Austin every year since 1994. I have also done considerable research on the Dresden Codex Venus Pages.
Rather belatedly (after a time away from W.) I see that you removed some words from the Jack Vance - Integral Edition section concerning editing errors and editorial choices. The whole purpose of the Integral Edition project was to collect all of Jack Vance's writings, and produce a text free from all errors. Misprints, mistypes, misplaced or lost text, and so forth. The fascinating project involved hundreds of participants (described in issues of the project's fan magazine Cosmopolis) and as a long-time fan of Jack Vance's writings, I spent some $4,000 to acquire a set of the six volumes, hoping thereby that Perfection of Reading - is possible. Alas, there proved to be typesetting errors and editorial changes away from the True Text, directly failing the intent of the project. This seemed to me to be worthy of note, indeed, the preparation of the text seemed noteworthy as well, being so unusual. The Integral Edition text is of course being used in republications, and so, these errors are likely being disseminated. Just today, I found another error, "exhaltation" (in Wyst: Alastor 1719, in the second column of page 410 of volume VI) NickyMcLean ( talk) 11:55, 28 April 2021 (UTC)