medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Galley proofs looked different from actual pages. I recall them as long
sheets of paper, more like legal pages. Then you got more
normal-looking page proofs for final approval.
A publishing friend once commented on how much his firm saved by
eliminating the galley-proof phase.
Tom Izbicki
Christopher Crockett wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
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>
>> One of the more interesting aspects of the change in printing was, from
>>
> my viewpoint, the evaporation of galley proofs. Now we only see page
> proofs.
>
> i must confess to ignerence as to the diff between these two.
>
>
>> Camera ready copy is another interesting development. At least one of
>>
> my publishers finally gave up on expecting camera ready copy from authors.
> They were getting copy they had to reset anyway.
>
>
> it's definitely a good bit of work, but i've played around with getting parts
> of my text into "camera ready" shape, and, best i can make out, i've been able
> to come up with something which is virtually indistinguishable from a nicely
> laid out book.
>
> and that's only using WORD.
>
> not simple to do, as i said, but possible (with a ready vocabulary of
> profanity befitting detailed work using any Microsoft product).
>
>
> i mainly do it because i really like to proofread my own Limpid Prose in that
> spiffy, "finished" format.
>
> makes me feel like i'm making "progress", after all these years.
>
>
> either way, the real advance seems to me to be the difference between sending
> the publisher a text in a digital format --which an editor (with appropriate
> softwhere) can massage into a decent typographical format-- and sending the
> publisher a hard copy typescript which must be entirely re-"typed" by a true
> compositor on a Lineotype machine.
>
> the savings in time and labor between these m.o.s two *must* really be
> enormous.
>
> so, howscome the price of books hasn't gone *down*, as the technology has
> improved??
>
> c
>
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