But what's that mark-up I see? It's quite possible the ISO has moved on from when I knew it, but where's the carrots/soliduses after each mark, and full stops in circles, and colon too, are fine, but not commas or hyphens* - shld be comma with a hat to show low not high (ie not close quote)?
*(is that a hyphen - shuld have a lil hyphen mark above it in my ancient world or an n circled or m circled, and space marks...)
Proofreader I use currently is brilliant at picking up meaning issues, and having a music background he has an advantage for spotting a date may be wrong or something which other people wouldn't necessarily pick up on. And good at grammar and reading for sense. But I get frustrated that important and useful as those things are (and they should really have been picked up the copy-editor not the proofreader, but I'm grateful for him seeing them), what I really want a proofreader to do is see that SHAKESPEARE is spelt wrong in the A heading in bold large type on page 4, which he missed. Grr. And he litters the proofs with pencil queries to me rather than deciding things or writing me a list of things I need to look at, or contacting me, or the author, while he is working, if he must. The last thing I want is to have to look through all the proofs looking for his pencil queries before I return it to the typesetters.
Would you not do this?
(There's little money in it - I'm taking about 20 pages of prelims not a book, the rest being music these days. But you could add OUP to your worked-for list.)
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But what's that mark-up I see? It's quite possible the ISO has moved on from when I knew it, but where's the carrots/soliduses after each mark, and full stops in circles, and colon too, are fine, but not commas or hyphens* - shld be comma with a hat to show low not high (ie not close quote)?
*(is that a hyphen - shuld have a lil hyphen mark above it in my ancient world or an n circled or m circled, and space marks...)
Proofreader I use currently is brilliant at picking up meaning issues, and having a music background he has an advantage for spotting a date may be wrong or something which other people wouldn't necessarily pick up on. And good at grammar and reading for sense. But I get frustrated that important and useful as those things are (and they should really have been picked up the copy-editor not the proofreader, but I'm grateful for him seeing them), what I really want a proofreader to do is see that SHAKESPEARE is spelt wrong in the A heading in bold large type on page 4, which he missed. Grr. And he litters the proofs with pencil queries to me rather than deciding things or writing me a list of things I need to look at, or contacting me, or the author, while he is working, if he must. The last thing I want is to have to look through all the proofs looking for his pencil queries before I return it to the typesetters.
Would you not do this?
(There's little money in it - I'm taking about 20 pages of prelims not a book, the rest being music these days. But you could add OUP to your worked-for list.)