Archive for May, 2004

Fixing Typos Automatically

Wednesday, May 26th, 2004

All this talk about editorial style sheets in the past couple of newsletters got me thinking again about lists of automatic corrections. Long ago, I wrote about this and provided a couple of such lists: Share

Restoring Superscript to Note Numbers

Wednesday, May 19th, 2004

I get manuscripts with all kinds of weird formatting, but recently I got one from which all formatting had been removed. That might have been all right, but the note reference numbers were no longer superscript; they all looked something like this.42 I wasn't about to fix all those by ...

Editorial Style Sheet Macro

Wednesday, May 12th, 2004

Last week's newsletter provided a style sheet that editors can use to keep track of style decisions while editing in Microsoft Word. If you didn't get that style sheet, you can download it here: Share