The Art of Copyediting Blog

Sporadic musings of an editor addicted to orderly working

Handling tables and figures during copyediting

Objectives of copyediting and typesetting

Once a manuscript enters production, the content is always looked at in terms of the practical realities of the production process. When considered objectively, both copyediting and typesetting are part of a single production process. When analyzed...

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Offshore editorial function in India in scholarly/academic publishing: lost opportunities and potential for growth

Copyediting outsourcing to India

It was sometime between the late 1980s and early 1990s that the experiment to “outsource”—the term was not common then—editorial work to India began. Typesetting had been there for some years, and it was perhaps felt that copyediting too...

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