[Hps] Volunteer to read the ECal HPS article

[Gabriel CHARLES]

Dear HPS collaborators,

   We have received many emails of volunteers. Thank you very much for 
your support.
   Graf Norman has accepted to take on this charge.

Sincerely,
  Gabriel



Le 2017-01-12 09:11, Gabriel CHARLES a écrit :
> Dear HPS collaborators,
> 
>    A referee for the ECal/NIM paper states that the English language
> needs to be revised in depth. He/she gave some instances which were
> corrected according to his/her wishes. We are somewhat surprised. True
> the paper results from several contributions by different authors and
> it might lack some homogeneity in style, in spite of our editing
> efforts. Nevertheless, one of us (MG) wrote several papers and never
> had such comments. More importantly, the manuscript was
> re-read/corrected by some distinguished collaborators, native
> speakers: Nathan, John, Larry,.... Together with detailed, optional,
> corrections from John and Larry, we had comments like: " found it well
> written, informative, and very good" and " excellent.  I have a few
> very minor suggestions and corrections.  You may ignore any or all of
> them". We cannot help thinking that the referee was prejudiced when
> seeing that the corresponding  authors are not native speakers.
> 
>    In any case, we are now looking for a new volunteer within the
> whole HPS collaboration, well versed in the English language, to take
> a fresh look at this paper and make all necessary corrections to the
> style and wording. This contribution would be very much appreciated
> (and acknowledged at the end of the paper if not already co-author).
> 
> Have a nice day,
> --
> Michel & Gabriel