EDIT: I have since decided to work on wxLauncher, so I'm no longer offering proofreading services. Thanks for your interest.
Hi HLPers!
I was wondering whether any campaign designers would be interested in having someone (or yet another person) proofread the text in their campaigns.
The text I'm willing to proofread includes that found in
I can check that the text is
- grammatically correct (including spelled correctly)
- idiomatically correct (that is, something an English speaker might say)
- stylistically reasonable (this is where things can get subjective)
and maybe provide some other comments on the side. I use American English, but if the text
is un-American uses a different English variant, such as British, I'll try to stick to that.
I can't help with
- FREDding
- modeling
- writing
- testing
- etc.
mostly for lack of either skills (in some cases) or time (in the rest).
As for my credentials, besides being a native English speaker... as a grad student, I edit papers, both mine and others'. Of course, you always have the option of using all, some, or none of my suggested changes.
I've played through the entire FS2 campaign and around half of the FS1 main campaign (through FSPort), and I've also read quite a few of the articles on the FreeSpace Wiki, so I have a pretty good idea of how a campaign's text should sound. I also recently started playing BP (which has blown me away) and hope to play through it and other campaigns when I can -- alas, for grad students, work continues throughout the summer.
Reply if you're interested. I'd strongly prefer to receive files that can be edited in a text editor. If possible, I'd also prefer to receive files packaged as a tarball (.tar.gz) or ZIP file rather than as a VP.
Thanks for your consideration.
