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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Yes, the ingenuity of authors in finding inconvenient ways to present their material continues to mpress me!
The old type-setter's maxim was 'Set what you're sent'. I guess we have to extend this now with 'check that you're seeing what they THINK they sent'.
Sometimes we're sent what seems an illogical, inconsistent selection of line breaks and spacing, indents, paragraph margins etc. SOMETIMES this is all part of the author's deeply logical (to him) intention. I must admit to often chancing that it isn't :-) Occasionally the job gets sent back. Not often.
And, although I tend to add missing full stops, I leave the author's apostrophes alone - however much they make me wince.
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Have you gotten the ones where they think that the paragraphs that start with dialogue should be indented, and narrative block-style, or vice-versa? I don't know what asshat spreads that around, or tells people that's the right way to write a book, but it's MIND-boggling to me. I keep wanting to ask those folks, "have you ever
SEEN a book?" I've seen more than a few now, and honest to crap, it leaves me speechless.
Hitch