Frugal Wizard Typos Thread

[Chaos he/him]

Put any typo for Frugal Wizard in here!

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

On location 1346 of my kindle book, immediately after the 'Alright, why can't I have talking bananas' FAQ, it refers to the vikings as 'well-kempt.' I'm pretty sure this is supposed to be 'well-kept.'

[Treamayne]

Regular ePub  on Kobo and kePub: Acknowledgements

ePub only has font files for Benguiat and Charcuterie - so the "ᛁᛋᚫᚫᚳ Stewart" ack. shows as "□□□□□ Stewart."

Table of Contents (update, also Acks) - Font size is microscopic. Is it really too much to ask for people to use 1em for normal text, and adjust special text from there? I had to step the font size 8 times just to get it legible. To give some context (can't screenshot the Kobo Forma) the Contents screen showed everything from "The Furgal Wizard's . . . " header to "FAQ: What if I'm Still Worried. . . " (FAQ btwn Ch 26 and 27) and was small enough to fit "FAQ: Why Does Everyone in Britain Speak Modern English in My Pre-Norman-Conquest Dimension? Shouldn’t That Require" before a line wrap.

Looking at the file, it appears that no text size was defined for <p> (and no class was used for this text) so my best guess is that with no text size defined, the device went to "smallest possible." I can't find a way to discern the em-to-pixel setting I was on before this book, but as a ratio this is showing about 53 lines of text in Portrait (not including white space, margins and padding) when my previous book at this setting displays about 30 lines of text in Portrait.

As with SP1: the kepub sideloaded directly handles the images correctly; the epub or kepub sideloaded through Calibre makes the images huge overflowing beasts that are not displayed correctly at all.

Just getting started, I'll post more from the kepub if/as I find them.

On 4/1/2023 at 9:58 PM, The Known Novel said:

it refers to the vikings as 'well-kempt.'

Wiktionary: Kempt -

Spoiler

Etymology

Originally a past participle of kemb, from Middle English kemben, from Old English cemban (“to comb”). Modern uses are back-formations from the negative unkempt. More at kemb, comb.

Adjective

kempt

    (now humorous) neat and tidy; especially used of hair

Usage notes
Less common than unkempt. Often used in compound well-kempt or phrase “well kempt”, which may be criticized as redundant; compare well-groomed, well-kept.

 

[Inkspren_K she/her]

On page 184 in the pdf, there is a footnote 3, but in-text 3 for it to refer back to. I need to know what's in Canada!

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

38 minutes ago, Inkspren_K said:

On page 184 in the pdf, there is a footnote 3, but in-text 3 for it to refer back to. I need to know what's in Canada!

That's a footnote for the previous footnote. It is properly asterisked.

[RShara she/her]

In the alt-text for the Part 1 Marginalia doodles, it says "Mervin is started when the tall sales-wizard..." This should probably be "startled" instead.

Also, it should say "Santa Claus" not "Santa Clause".

Edited April 4, 2023 by RShara

[Inkspren_K she/her]

20 hours ago, The Known Novel said:

That's a footnote for the previous footnote. It is properly asterisked.

I don't see an asterisk or 3. Maybe you have a different version?

[The Unknown Medallion he/him]

1 hour ago, Inkspren_K said:

I don't see an asterisk or 3. Maybe you have a different version?

In the kindle version it's this (sorry, it's forced on to two different pages):

[Shadowfax]

in the Kindle ePub there is a formatting issue near the end of Chapter 34.

 

"But we stopped [return, starts new line]
just outside the front doors."

[PAS]

I sent my "report" shortly after receiving my backer's copy, so before the book was officially released, but I don't know if this report was ever read, so I'm posting it here too.

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook - comments - Sicart.docx The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook - comments - Sicart.pdf

[bailsfails]

On 4/3/2023 at 7:07 PM, Inkspren_K said:

On page 184 in the pdf, there is a footnote 3, but in-text 3 for it to refer back to. I need to know what's in Canada!

This took me forever - but I believe it's in the previous footnote!!! If I remember correctly, it basically says "ah yes, our devices are totally legal" or something haha