Re: Electronic editing

[David Mackinder davemack@xxxxxxxx]

alternatively, they -- publishers and editors -- might be obtaining their macros
from editors' groups such as The Electric Editors
(http://www.electriceditors.net/macros/index.htm) or The Editorium
(http://www.editorium.com/)

Patricia M Godfrey wrote:

> Or "Report from the enemy camp." Last week I found myself in the company
> of a number of other copy editors, many of whom were using Word to edit
> on the computer. I questioned how they could do that, with a program that
> resolutely hides all formatting (something one needs to see to copy edit
> well). Turns out they are NOT using out-of-the-box, plain-vanilla Word.
> No, the companies they work for have paid (and paid plenty, I'll wager)
> third parties to create plug-ins, add-ons, templates, and macros to make
> Word a--supposedly--suitable platform for online editing.
>     Now it's true that one needed some tweaking to do this in XyW too. But
> (Leslie will correct me if I have this wrong) that tweaking was done in
> house, by admitedly skillful end-users. I really question whether any
> Word end-user, no matter how savvy, could have constructed those add-ons
> for Word. To do so no doubt requires privy knowledge of APIs and other
> stuff that Micro$oft doesn't want end-users to know. Only those who have
> signed (in blood?) nondisclosure agreements.