FAQ Central

Version 1.8, released August 17, 2004

This page contains links to all the Documentation and FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) files about the Distributed Proofreaders website.

Beginning Proofreader's FAQ

Introduction to the site, general overview, beginner's questions.

Proofreading Quiz & Tutorial

Try the proofreading quiz and tutorial. It is a great walk through the basic Guidelines for beginners and an excellent refresher for old hands.

Handy Proofreading Guide

(aka "Summary Guidelines") A printable (.pdf) two-page summary of the most commonly needed proofreading standards from the Proofreading Guidelines, done as one big example! You may need to download and install a .pdf reader to print or view the summary. You can get one free from Adobe® here.

Proofreading Guidelines

The full details of the guidelines we use for proofreading documents.

Standard Proofreading Interface Help

A help-file for the Standard Proofreading Interface.

Enhanced Proofreading Interface Help

A help-file for the Enhanced Proofreading Interface.

DP Custom Proofreading Font Page

Home of the DP Custom Proofreading Font. Font Samples and download and installation instructions.

Mentors Page

A page detailing currently available mentor projects.

Forums FAQ

Information on using the Forum software (our "bulletin board" system for communication between all the people working on a book: the proofreaders, the Project Manager, and the Post-Processor. This is the place to ask your questions about a book.)

 

 

Project Manager's FAQ

Information for new or aspiring Project Managers. (Project Managers are people who manage the progress of a particular project ("book") through this site.)

Content Provider's FAQ

Overview for people who want to contribute material to be proofread on this site.

Scanning FAQ

Basic information on scanners and how to use them, based on our experiences.

Post-Processing FAQ

Information for new and aspiring Post-Processors. (Post-Processors are people who do all the processing of a particular project ("book") after it has been proofread on this site (combining all the pages, making them consistent, fixing problems, and submitting it to the Project Gutenberg archive.)

 

 

Task Center

Here you will find a list of feature requests and bugs. You may add tasks after searching to see that the issue isn't already there.

Mailing Lists for Users

Here you will find information about the email lists DP has available for users.

 

 

Project Gutenberg FAQ

The massive FAQ from our parent site, Project Gutenberg.

DP Privacy Policy

A link to the Distributed Proofreading Privacy Policy that you saw when you first registered at this site.