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Old 08-02-2019, 08:57 PM   #33133
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Originally Posted by DMcCunney View Post
At a guess, no one. The publisher sent typeset gallys to Joyce and let him proof it.


(The late SF writer John Brunner described his experience on one book. It was in the days when you still submitted hardcopy manuscripts. He did a book with phrases that were deliberate that he knew a copy editor or proofreader would try so "correct". So he printed a submission draft of the manuscript, and went through it and circled all instances that might get corrected and wrote STET! in big letters in the margin beside each instance. Sure enough, he got the galley proofs and every instance had been "corrected". We were bemused that the people involved on the publisher end who worked on the manuscript didn't know what "STET!" meant.)
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Or, more likely, they simply ignored him. :-)

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