Sonia Jaffe Robbins, Editing Workshop, G54.1123, WEEK I

(Adapted from Words Into Type, 3rd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1974, pp. 11.12)

Before newspapers and magazines were routinely produced on computers, editors always used certain marks and abbreviations universally understood by printers to indicate how a typed manuscript was to be turned into typeset material (news story, magazine article, book, etc.). These marks and abbreviations are, obviously, not used for editing and copy editing on computers. They are used, however, regularly by copy editors to mark up page proofs, and proofreaders use them, in slightly different form, for correcting galleys. Following are the most commonly used marks.

Last revision: January 16, 2005

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