Dear Editor I've written a booklet entitled How Things Changed, designed
for those for whom editing is something which happens on a computer screen. It tells them about the joys and perils they have
missed – by less than fifty years. Printing technology has changed more in those fifty years than in the previous five
hundred.
The current version is greatly improved from the first,
thanks in particular to contributions from Janet McKenzie, who is the best editor I have ever had, and Tony Geeves, who knows
so much that I don't.
But I would still like some more help..
Not just checking for typos and solecisms, but for errors of commission or omission, boring bits, factual inaccuracies - anything
that you think makes it less than satisfactory in doing its appointed task. I would particularly like to hear from a person
who is totally new to the profession, who could tell me whether it is interestlng
and helpful and, if not, how it could be improved. Any substantial improvements which result will
be credited to you in the text (unless you tell me not to). |
