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A plea for sanity Changing a piece of text work towards the end of its evolution, when page numbers, diagrams, tables, indexes et cetera have been put in place, can be a time-consuming and costly operation. Quite often these changes are due to unavoidable circumstances, such as an aspect of the work becoming out of date, but occasionally they are due to an error in the copy that was not spotted by the editor, considered correct by the setter/proofreader, and ignored at the final read. Of these errors, many are due to the original manuscript being barely legible or difficult to interpret. On the following page is a list of common mispractices in manuscript making and copy editing that could minimise such occurrences. |