medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> 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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