FAQ Central

Version 1.6, released Jul 11, 2003

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

Beginning Proofer's FAQ- Introduction to the site, general overview, beginner's questions.
Handy Proofing Guide - (aka "Summary Guidelines") A printable two-page summary of the most commonly needed proofing standards from the Proofing Guidelines, done as one big example!
Proofing Guidelines - The full details of the guidelines we use for proofing documents.
Language specific guidelines - Guidelines for various languages, when they differ from English.
Standard Proofing Interface Help - A help-file for the Standard Proofing Interface.
Enhanced Proofing Interface Help - A help-file for the Enhanced Proofing Interface.
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.)
Submitting Material FAQ - Overview for people who want to contribute material to be proofed on this site.
Scanning FAQ - Basic information on scanners and how to use them, based on our experiences.

Post-Proofing FAQ - Information for new and aspiring Post-Proofers. (Post-Proofers 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.)
Project Gutenberg FAQ - The massive FAQ from our parent site, Project Gutenberg (draft of new version). (This url is "unofficial" and "temporary" -- it points to Jim Tinsley's own site rather than anywhere on the official PG site -- but useful anyway.)
DP Privacy Policy - A link to the Distributed Proofreading Privacy Policy that you saw when you first registered at this site.