Copyeditors are asked to provide a sample edit and preliminary style sheet for each project, and timely, detailed feedback is given in response to each sample edit. Electronic Copyediting e have developed an excellent system for electronic copyediting using Microsoft Word. Elsewhere on this Web site we've published a selection of instructions and guidelines , a tutorial for editing on disk , and even a simplified Microsoft Word template for electronic editing. We invite customers of Impressions to download these and adapt them for their own use. Our many years of data conversion experience in our composition operation equips us to handle almost any author disks, whether prepared on Mac, PC, or even Unix, from almost any word processor.
Authors love working with our electronic copyediting.
Publishers sometimes worry about how authors will react to this. In fact, authors often comment on how much they like to work with our electronically copyedited manuscripts. The authors are sent a printout in which text added to the original file appears with a double underscore and text deleted from the file appears with a strikethrough, thereby allowing them to see and assess the changes made to the original document. Author queries are referred to by number in the text and are printed on blue paper at the end of each chapter, with plenty of space for authors to write their responses. The clarity and convenience of this approach can't be beat.