I'd like to keep them in there. New players ought to find this useful as well. The original name I was going to go with was "Rules Compendium" but Neal suggested "Tournament Pack" and I thought it was a better fit.

On the ToC, I think I solved the problem. So long as I generate the ToC on the latest version of OO in Windows only it works...

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On these, OO won't let you put a footnote inside a frame. I could always hide the real footnote and put a fake one in the frame but it won't auto-update its number when new footnotes are added. That felt too problematic to me, so I went with the ugly way of doing it.



Unless it's in GW's errata I'm not touching the rules.



Neal ^^^



Ug, chancing all the appropriate "Blast Markers" to "Blast markers" is going to suck.



Neal ^^^

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Neal ^^^



If I put it above the footnotes the layout gets screwy, this was the safer way.



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If they're in the FAQs point them out, I'll take care of them.



Do you mean the X.X or the X.X.X headers? I think all the styles have a .1cm margin below and nothing above.

What's wrong with the spacing in the 7+ to hit and etc.?



I won't do it in the rules, but the FAQ I'm less hesitant about. The reason why I'm being so obstinate about touching the rules is it's going to to be the harmless stuff like your suggesting giving way to bigger touch-ups and eventually re-writes. The intent of this doc is to present the rules, as they are written, cleanly. Bump, scratches, scrapes and all.

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As I understand it, the NetEA is the semi-official successor to GW's development. NetEA produced the FAQs currently on GW's website, helped produce the errata, etc.



The listing in the table of contents.



Not necessarily officially, just in this instance (the Table of Contents) for space concerns.



Riiiiiiiiight.



I'll give you a nickel...

Regarding rules:
I think it'd be worth compiling another errata document then, just for grammatical and spelling stuff. We can send it off to GW and see what happens - worse comes to worse it'll come back with a blessing and no actual action.

Regarding FAQs:
Where should I post the FAQ nitpickings, then?



In italic text, any number seems to be sans serif. I think it's the font, but it's weird.



I was afraid you'd say that.

Perhaps in the final draft add a fake footnote in a logical place as well as the original footnote, just so it's more noticable (yes, the text is obvious, but still).



Case-sensitive search and replace. You'll be fine.



Perhaps write a bunch of invisible text specifically for this page, then put the table in the middle of it? Right now it kind of creates the impression the tables are unofficial.

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All page number refer to those in the pdf, not on the pages.

Turns out it's hard to check which en dashes are FAQ and new errors and which are on the GW rules, owing to the imbecility of whoever typeset and edited the original book. So in some places GW got it right in the rules, but it is now wrong in this pdf, in some cases it is right on both places, wrong in both, or just wrong in the new FAQ etc. As i'm not going to cross check every dash in the pdf against the printed rules, what follows i probably a bit hit and miss. If someone who knows what they're doing (pixlegeek?) goes through the master document it'd be easy just to correct and make everything consistant going through, just takes ages to type it out here – far easier to just do it than point them all out

I'd go for find an replace it all (see the timeline 300 rules thread for how to do it selectively for hyphens and dashes), but that will change stuff in the GW rules …

p18, 'Can AP weapons target AV’s just' -> remove apostrophe
p22, 'Barrage templates - is it possible to' en dash –
p23, 'action per se - the initiative' en dash
p25, assault procedure, put an en – not a hyphen after each roman numeral. This look to be a copying error and is correct in the print book but not your pdf.
p25, 'other case…so you can’t' give the elipsis some space
p27, assault mod table, figures in right hand column are not aligned and crazy space between columns
p31, '(try saying that ten times fast ; ))' is this meant to be an emoticon or have a semi-colon and a right parenthesis got lost? looks odd anyway
p61, everything on there should be an en dash – no a hyphen

stopped at army list, since every page starting here has a lot of micro-typographic corrections wanting in any case and i assume this links back to the compendium tables as well.


spacing stuff:
headings: yea the x.x.xs. In general the formatting of the document gives quite a grainy look – if you look at p32 there are a lot of little bits of bold text floating around every few lines, but space has not been used to give them meaning. I would suggest something like this:

This will make stuff run longer, but there are places where you can make space back such as your bullet points.

tables: 7+ tables is actually a mild example, see the assault modifier table for a worse offender. The problem with the space is that there is far too much of it. You want people to read across rows of information, so putting the columns as far apart as possible discourages this. Again a lot of this is inherited from the GW original, where the little tables in the rules are generally poorly composed.
Even things like the barrage table, there is so much space between columns.

cm/cms fair enough

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Have at it if you like, but I'd suggest doing it on the PDFs up on their site. Mostly because I'd rather they not get wind of this thing and tell us to take it down.



Here's fine unless Neal says otherwise. On the FAQ grammar and stuff, I'm taking care of them as you point them out. For the rearranging/re-writing stuff that's Neal's call.



Ya, it's the font.



That still involves having to go through and manually change the numbers when a new FAQ is added. That's not something I want to get into. Automate everything!



It wasn't quite that simple, as headers need title case. Whatever, it's done now.

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p35 (pdf) 'Notes would apply the ability to all assault attacks - CC' en dash –

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On the spacing above h3s, any idea how to stop OO from adding it when the h3 is the first thing in a column? It looks weird.

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That's just how that version of garmond is. If you look at Adobe's garamond pro version instead, compared to the garamond used in this file you'll find the italic figures are more 'serify' – eg the 4 and the 1 have a foot, the 3 keeps a swell.

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In that case the solution is probably to make a new style for the first para of body text after each h3, and add the space in there instead. But this is annoying as you'll have to go through put a different style on each first para.

InDesign just ignores 'space before' if it's at the top of a text frame

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I've got Adobe 9 on the machine I grabbed all the fonts from. It's Garamond 2.4.



And more annoying if things get rearranged when new FAQs are added and I have to go back to replace that style for the non-spaced one, etc. I'll poke around on the OO forums to see if there's a work around. I doubt it though. This might be something that you'll have to ignore if you use this thing.

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Or just have two h3 styles, one with space for general use, one without for use at the top of a column.

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That's what I was getting at. If things get rearrange I have to go hunting and replacing for them.

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It makes absolutely no difference for anything, but i'm procrastinating, so here is a comparison between the garmond in the pdf and adobe garmond pro:

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