Re: Proofreading & Editing Tips--easier format I hope

Subject: Re: Proofreading & Editing Tips--easier format I hope
From: Richard Danca <rdanca -at- UIE -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:52:18 -0600

A few other tips for your otherwise excellent and comprehensive
list. The first is a variation on your advice to check heads and
boilerplate:

Carefully read the mouse-type: Text set at 6-point or less is
where I've most often found errors that previous proofreaders
missed. (This *really* impressed one client.)

Look closely at the page numbers and other footer/header/folio
material. These often don't change when they should (new
sections, new chapters) and are too easy to overlook. They also
sometimes get out of sequence.

Are the illustrations right-side up? It's awfully easy to skip
past a Chinese pictograph or a molecular model that's been
flipped.

Do the figure numbers match their reference in
the text? Are they sequential?

When reading aloud, pronounce words the way they're supposed to
*look*. (Sorry, I can't think of any right now, but they include
words where it sounds like a Z -- but is spelled with an S.)

Use a different-colored pen to check off the corrections marked
in the earlier version that you've made in the latest version.
This helps force you to make *all* the correx.

Thanks for your work in collecting these tips. (And thanks for
reposting in English, not HTML!).

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