On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 9:04 AM <xxxxxx@pcug.org.au> wrote:

Dear Folks -

xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:

> One of the points made by others and I think explicitly existent in
> Rebellion era library data is this: Every telling was told by somebody
> with
> a perspective. There were no truly objective observers.
>
> Maybe that explains some of the canonical positions that contradict.

As someone who has transcribed a few Library Data entries, I can let you
know that there were a few transcription differences between the CT-era
Library Data (from the two Supplements) and the MT Library Data.

This was primarily due to the authors of MT having to re-type everything!

The ability to save and preserve and import text via computers is a big thing.

The text of the original "Little Black Books" was entered directly in to
the printing machines by the type-setters, and therefore there was no
electronic copy. Scanners were also in their infancy in those days, and
even if you owned one the character recognition programs were a bit dodgy.
(I know, I tried scanning a few pages in back in the early 90s, and even
then the results were less than spectacular).

A bit dodgy? You are a truly generous soul. They were a dumpster fire...

Thus the MT authors found it easier to re-type the whole thing.

Along the way, they took advantage of this re-typing to add some updates
in those entries directly affected by the events of the Rebellion.

For example, see the difference between Norris' original CT entry:

http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/libdata/alphabet/n/norris.htm

and his MT entry:

http://members.tip.net.au/~davidjw/libdata/alphabet/n/norri_mt.htm

In addition, there is an in-game explanation in the MT Library Data of why
the entries are different, under the Regency library data heading.
Basically it's a clever way to insert a disclaimer. ;-) ;-)

Yes, it was that in-game explanation that I was looking at and the nature of all of the different views of each faction's truth (the truth the supporters see and the truth the opponents see). You don't really get an answer to many of them until quite a bit later if at all.

The Rebellion really is a more perspective driven environment than CT.

I like your sig re hashing w gravity. That's like the old saw about how teachers marked papers - stand at the top of the stairs, toss them down the stairs. The further down your work plummeted (usually correlated to mass of pages), the higher your mark. It also made marking time fairly short (toss, record results, gather and return papers).

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David "Hyphen" Jaques-Watson Beowulf Down (Tavonni/Vilis/SM 1520)
http://www.tip.net.au/~davidjw xxxxxx@pcug.org.au
"I file things in historical order, with a hashing algorithm of gravity"

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