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Originally Posted by K-Thom
Since I'm doing exactly that kind of work professionally for about half a year now (semi-professional for about the last seven years or so), it looks like i'm way too low priced ...
* Proofread is only done casually while formatting the files, i.e. I use the Word2007 spell checker which does find a lot of errors and browse the files while working at them. No client I ever had asked explicitely for it, either. . . .
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I just want it to be clear that spell checking in Word is
NOT proofreading or copyediting, although far too many authors and publishers think that is sufficient. Think about all of the things that spell check cannot find for correction, for example:
- which vs. witch
- there vs. their
- seen vs. scene
Or miscapitalization as in:
"Jonah helped his Uncle Jack off his horse" vs. "Jonah helped his uncle jack off his horse"
Not quite the same meaning, ehhh!
