Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 5 Sep 1996 to 6 Sep 1996

["Elaine R. Firestone" <elaine -at- CALVAL -dot- GSFC -dot- NASA -dot- GOV>]

>I have a question that was sparked by all this reference to colors of ink.
>Does everyone edit hard copy only or do some of you edit online?

>Karen Wiley
>Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
>karen_wiley -at- jhuapl -dot- edu

Hi all.  This is my first posting on techwr-l so I'll introduce myself.
I'm Elaine Firestone and work for a contractor as a senior technical editor
at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (Hi Geoff Hart and David Ibbettson
and all my other friends from copyediting-l!).

This post of Karen's led me to come out of lurk mode.  BTW, I edit
primarily on hard copy in neon pink ink for all the reasons that someone
else (sorry, I don't remember who posted it) edits in purple.  My reasons
for editing hard copy are many:

1. Mistakes "pop up" at me easier on hard copy;
2. It's portable, unlike a computer; and
3. Once the document is typeset (I do that, too) it is easier to see both
editing and typesetting glitches in hard copy.

FWIW.  My $0.02.

Elaine

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