RE: What to look for in a technical editor

["Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com>]

...which is why technical knowledge is of greater importance. An editor who
does not know the technical info and moves a comma to make something
grammatically correct might change the meaning of the technical info by
mistake.

Bill Swallow
wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com


::: -----Original Message-----
::: The danger is that an extreme grammatical mistake (or just 
::: a common and 
::: minor mistake like a misplaced comma) can lead to ambiguity, 
::: misinterpretation, and user error that can result in anything from 
::: frustration at one end to the death of hundreds of 
::: passengers or the 
::: meltdown of a nuclear reactor at the other end. This isn't 
::: a matter of 
::: nitpicking, it's a matter of clear communication, which is 
::: something 
::: both writers and editors should care about, it seems to me.



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