Daggerfall Proofreading Project
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2024 3:23 pm
I hope this is the right place to put this post. I'm hoping to have this work integrated into the DFU project, but if that's not possible, I can release it as a mod.
I spent a week proofreading (by hand) all of DFU's quest text, and the localization CSV files; I fixed hundreds of typos and grammatical errors. I made a changelog documenting all of these fixes.
I also improved the formatting of the books, so they're now more legible. It would've taken me another week to proofread all of them so I only did a few.
In addition to the straight fixes, I also changed a few things for the sake of consistency: the Pickpocket skill is now called Pickpocketing everywhere (in the vein of Backstabbing and Lockpicking); contrarily, Critical Strike is now used everywhere instead of Critical Striking (as I thought the former sounded a bit better.) The Cart is now called the Wagon everywhere (except on the travel screen, since I couldn't figure out how to modify that text.) I actually would've changed it to Cart everywhere, except the 'Wagon' button in the inventory screen is seen more often, and I couldn't figure out how to modify that, either.
The zipped file is <2MB so I could just attach it here, but am unsure if this is the best place to put it, in order for it to be added to DFU. Or, maybe the maintainers prefer the original typo-ridden text (although that seems unlikely given many of the errors pointed out on the UESP quest pages have been corrected.)
I spent a week proofreading (by hand) all of DFU's quest text, and the localization CSV files; I fixed hundreds of typos and grammatical errors. I made a changelog documenting all of these fixes.
I also improved the formatting of the books, so they're now more legible. It would've taken me another week to proofread all of them so I only did a few.
In addition to the straight fixes, I also changed a few things for the sake of consistency: the Pickpocket skill is now called Pickpocketing everywhere (in the vein of Backstabbing and Lockpicking); contrarily, Critical Strike is now used everywhere instead of Critical Striking (as I thought the former sounded a bit better.) The Cart is now called the Wagon everywhere (except on the travel screen, since I couldn't figure out how to modify that text.) I actually would've changed it to Cart everywhere, except the 'Wagon' button in the inventory screen is seen more often, and I couldn't figure out how to modify that, either.
The zipped file is <2MB so I could just attach it here, but am unsure if this is the best place to put it, in order for it to be added to DFU. Or, maybe the maintainers prefer the original typo-ridden text (although that seems unlikely given many of the errors pointed out on the UESP quest pages have been corrected.)