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Contents
Introduction
Some questions
Proofreading, proof reading or proof-reading?
So how does it differ from copy editing?
Is it copy editing, copyediting or copy-editing?
I'm guessing this is where the proofreader comes in.
So proofreaders don't need to know any English?
So where do proofreaders fit in?
What kind of proofreader?
- The "bitter" proofreader
- The "overzealous" proofreader
- The "paranoid" proofreader
- The "conscientious" proofreader
Grey areas
Contents
Getting started
What you need
Other things that help
Style
What is style?
The two components of a style sheet
Elements
Specifications
Elements
Specification items
Page size
Typeface
Folios and running heads
Front matter (prelims)
New parts and chapters
Headings and sections
Notes
Font
Paragraphs
Extracts, displays and quotations
Lists
Figures
Tables
Boxes
Tables, figures & boxes – general
References and bibliographical entries
- Author
- Date
- Title of work
- Editors
- Publishers
- Page references
- Volumes
- Presentation
- General rules
The index
- Entries and sub-entries
Specifications
Character specifications
Typeface
Tracking
Roman
Italics
Bold
Full capitals (full caps, f.c.)
Upper and lower case (caps and smalls)
First letter capital (1st letter u.c.; 1st letter cap)
Small capitals (small caps; s.c.)
U.C. + small capitals (u.c.+s.c., Even smalls)
Dropped/raised capitals (dropped/raised caps)
Superscript (superior) characters
Subscript (inferior) characters
Lining/non-lining figures
Spelt-out (s.o.) numbers
Decimal point
Ligature and diphthongs
Kerning
Reversed text
Non-standard text direction
Spaces and scaling
The point scale
Em/en/pica spaces (em/en/pica #)
The horizontal space scale
Line spaces (line #)
Chapter drop
Alignment
Full out
Indentations (indents)
Justified text
Ranged-left text
Ragged-right alignment
Ranged-right text
Centred text
Random, asymmetrical or contoured text
General information – alignment
A final word
Punctuation
What is it for?
Marks and their uses
The full point (.)
- General use
- Abbreviations
The comma (,)
- Parenthetical commas
- Listing commas
- To emulate speech patterns
- Other uses
The apostrophe (’)
- Possessives
- Possessive plurals
- Possessive pronouns
- Contractions
Quotation marks ( ‘ ’ & “ ” )
Em and en dash and hyphen ( —, –, - )
- The hyphen
- The en dash
- The em dash
- The minus sign
- Dashes in word processors
The colon ( : )
- The main use of the colon – relating clauses
- Capitalisation following a colon
- Introducing quotations
- Other colonic uses
The semicolon ( ; )
- General use
- Semicolons and lists
- Semicolons and quotation marks
Parentheses, brackets and braces
- Parentheses ( ( & ) )
- Brackets ( [ & ] )
- Braces ( { & } )
- Angled brackets ( < & > )
The slash, solidus, slant, virgule or oblique ( / )
- To provide alternatives and show ranges
- In poetry
- Other uses
The question mark or interrogation point ( ? )
The exclamation mark/point ( ! )
Ellipses ( ... )
The hash ( # )
The prime ( ' )
How to proofread
Introduction
Proofreading
Paper (hard copy) proofreading
- What you will receive
- Getting started
- Laying out your table
- Applying the symbols
- Tips on proofreading
Proofreading on the computer
- Track changes
- Correcting emails
- Correcting websites
- Proofreading all electronic media
The psychology of proofreading
The proofreading symbols
Introduction
Deleting, replacing and inserting
Formatting
Miscellaneous
Representations of common characters
Copy editing
Introduction
Requirements
Proofreading's role
The future of proofreading
Artificial intelligence
Spell checkers
Grammar checkers
OCR Systems
Disk submission
The Internet and e-books
Glossary
Further reading
Search
Tests
Test 1 – spelling and punctuation
Test 2 – proofreading
Test 3 – proofreading quiz
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