Comments on: A funny note on style sheets

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:50:23 +0000

I want to play!

I’ve posted A through D from the Terms section of the Paragaea style sheet, here: http://www.chrisroberson.net/2006/02/style-sheets.html.

Chris Roberson

By: mnfaure

mnfaure — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 03:54:24 +0000

Perhaps I’m completely misremembering something I read once, but would you include in this upcoming post whether or not it is something the author can help the copyeditor with by, say, copying their story’s dictionary from Word? I imagine it would cut down on query time, and I’m probably just exposing my ignorance by even asking since it may already be common practice.

By: deannahoak

deannahoak — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:42:48 +0000

That was from me, btw. :)

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:35:16 +0000

You’ll have to wait like everyone else, I guess. :-)

That’s one of my favorite things about being a copyeditor, as I’ve never considered myself a particularly patient sort. ;-)

By: johnjosephadams

johnjosephadams — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:56:37 +0000

Wow, I’m intrigued. I already want to see it and I can’t even find a synopsis.

By: deannahoak

deannahoak — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 08:21:19 +0000

Oh, there’s a copyediting topic I can post on! In short, the style sheet lists the characters, place names, and treatment of individual words in a manuscript. It also contains the specific grammatical styles the copyeditor used in editing (for instance, whether or not a serial comma was used).

I’ll go into it in more depth sometime soon, though!

By: merebrillante

merebrillante — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:54:02 +0000

I’m going to reveal my idiocy here by asking what a style sheet is. So what is it?