Today was exhausting, but managed to finish dimension, force and time with some satisfaction.
I'd say 60 or 70 percent of the repitition was eliminated and perhaps 80% of what really needed to be taken out.
Factually it was improved.
It is important to note that the fundaments are fairly fixed at this stage. There are important edits, but "aha" type moments are eliminated in favor of improving slightly the selected math models and a better understanding of what happens outside of the fixed aspects of the system, e.g. hinge and entraped states.
The editing includes 200 of 330 pages that need to edited of 400 total pages; the last 70 pages being the summary which has been heavily edited already and has perhaps 80% of what it needs to fully describe the project.
Tomorrow, I need to tackle the last 130 pages which fall into diverse categories; prior art, questions answered by the theory, and the like.
These are much less important that it might sound because they have already been edited a couple of times and largely include things which are either (1) reptitious or (2) superfluous or (3) obvious in light of the rest of the theory; although there is enough material in each section as support for the rest of the book and the summary that deleting it would be counter productive.
However, it was so complete that I decided to republish the book in electronic form again.
Then realizing that any order of the hard copy would be inadequate given the number of edits, I did the same for the print copy.
The electronic copy is already available by tomorrow the paperback book will be ready with all the critical updates. I would add that given the summary in earlier editions, the "critical" updates only prevent confusion and clean up the presentation. This is important in advance of peer review as will the edits to the next 130 pages.
I'm happy to say the formatting required almost no modification despite the edits which include some new drawings or slight modifications of the old drawings (as well as eliminating a lot of the repetition in those drawings.
I will consider taking a short breather on this end. Reviewing the130 pages will take some time and I have another book to finish. I am mindful, however, that I am not ordering any hard copies and while the summary copies are adequate for using as examples, the older version of these books are essentially useless at this point.
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