Re: What to look for in a technical editor

Subject: Re: What to look for in a technical editor
From: "Richard G. Combs" <richard -dot- combs -at- voyanttech -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 16:36:43 -0600



Martin Smith wrote:

> One of my favorite examples of Andrew's point is that of an editor who
> insisted on "correcting" all of the spelling errors in a source code
> listing. The alleged spelling errors were not in the comments. The editor
> couldn't understand why the source code wasn't written in plain English.

I love it! Did he "fix" all the capitalization errors, too? And what about
the underscores? <ROTFL>

Richard


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