06-21-2004, 07:27 PM
Yes, that's certainly an issue: a professional proofreader/ editor will catch spelling, punctuation and capitalization issues, but will they know about the finer points of the subject? In our case, the issue is, will the professional editor know enough Latin to, say, catch that a word is in the wrong declension or a macron is missing. We've had the best success by enlisting the help of Latin teachers who are helping to pilot the course, find errors for us that we've missed. My co-author and I proof each other's work, of course, but we get so used to each other's work that we miss important errors, sometimes. But I'm getting off-topic...<br>
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I concur, by the way, given my own experience in publishing, with Dr. Bishop that 1 euro is very cheap for a book, especially a hard-back with color. We could maybe do that with our books, but they're well under 300 pages (I think the shortest is about 120), spiral-bound and have no color except on the cover... and we could only get a price like this if we printed them by the thousand, rather than by the dozen like we do now.<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>
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I concur, by the way, given my own experience in publishing, with Dr. Bishop that 1 euro is very cheap for a book, especially a hard-back with color. We could maybe do that with our books, but they're well under 300 pages (I think the shortest is about 120), spiral-bound and have no color except on the cover... and we could only get a price like this if we printed them by the thousand, rather than by the dozen like we do now.<br>
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Aaron <p></p><i></i>
