Editorium Update

With some customization, Microsoft Word makes a pretty good tool for editing. The fact that it can be customized, in fact, is one of its finest features. I also like its use of styles, spell-checking, wildcard Find and Replace, and notes. There are also plenty of things I *don’t* like, including Word’s general “bugginess” and over-helpfulness. So I started thinking about what would make the ideal software for use in a publishing environment. What would that software look like? What features would it have?

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Last week’s newsletter explained how to sort Word’s index entries letter by letter rather than word by word:

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If you’ve used Microsoft Word’s Index feature, you know that Word alphabetizes index entries word by word, like this:

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In the past, I’ve recommended using your own template to apply to documents you’re editing. This allows you to use a typeface that’s easy to read on your monitor, offers plenty of differentiation between double and single quotation marks, and has a long em dash, a medium-sized en dash, and a short hyphen (so you can tell them apart). You can learn more about this here:

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