Archive for February, 2001
Wednesday, February 28th, 2001
This week subscriber Doug Clapp, proprietor of PocketPCpress (http://www.pocketpcpress.com/), wrote with an interesting question. He'd received a book that had been typeset in QuarkXPress (Doug didn't have QuarkXPress) and sent to him as a "stuffed" (.sit) Macintosh file (Doug didn't have the StuffIt program or a Macintosh). What Doug *needed* ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2001
An important part of editing is marking type specification levels in a manuscript. The Chicago Manual of Style describes the process like this: Share
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Wednesday, February 14th, 2001
I finally went out and bought that new monitor I mentioned last week--a 19-inch Sony that looked great in the store (playing the Jurassic Park DVD!). But when I got it home and hooked it up, it didn't look so good. The characters in Microsoft Word looked jagged, and the ...
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Wednesday, February 7th, 2001
This week I've been shopping around for a new monitor. That got me thinking about what editors need in the way of computer equipment. If you work for a corporation, the powers-that-be probably think like this: "Editors just do word-processing, so they don't need much of a computer." Then they ...
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