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exaltedwombat · 04-10-2019, 08:04 PM

Yes, the ingenuity of authors in finding inconvenient ways to present their material continues to impress 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.

04-10-2019, 08:04 PM	#12
exaltedwombat Guru Posts: 878 Karma: 2457540 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: none	Yes, the ingenuity of authors in finding inconvenient ways to present their material continues to impress 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. Last edited by exaltedwombat; 04-25-2019 at 12:49 PM.