Re: [Bug-gnupress] To Do List

[Joe Fineman]

Simon Law <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:21:54PM -0500, Joe Fineman wrote:
> > Simon Law <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > 5)  Someone needs to proofread the text to make sure it is proper
> > >     Engrish.
> > 
> > Aha!  Something I can do, if it doesn't have to be in the next few
> > weeks.
> 
>       I'm not sure what our hard deadline is, but I think we have
> approximately 5 weeks, by dead reckoning.

I'll be glad to do it in the latter part of that period.

> > N.B.  The correct word for this is "copyedit".  Proofreading is
> > something else again.
> 
>       Hmm...  What does proofreading mean?  I always thought that
> proofreading was to look at the text and mark the errors.

Proofreading is comparing the typeset version with the manuscript to
make sure the typesetter has followed the MS correctly.  It is true
that a good proofreader will flag obvious errors that have escapted
the vigtilance of the author & the copyeditor, but that is not his or
her main business.

Of course, in our situation, the MS *is* typeset, so proofreading in
the traditional sense is superfluous.  The job still exists, however,
in traditional publishing, where, very often, the author's keystrokes
are not even used for editing & typesetting, even tho they are
available.  It is still a rarity for a publisher to let me edit the
author's Word or TeX file directly.  I am still paid to put marks on
hardcopy, and in general the whole business is still going thru
motions that made sense when a MS was a set of directions for people
who stuck together little pieces of metal.
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