tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post5106838434151425412..comments2023-08-27T12:35:12.308+02:00Comments on sanscrite cogitare, sanscrite loqui: How to do editorial work on other people's paperselisa freschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17068583874519657894noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post-49604515289005619182012-01-17T22:13:57.136+01:002012-01-17T22:13:57.136+01:00:-) Thanks for the roaring, Krishna! Let us make t...:-) Thanks for the roaring, Krishna! Let us make the roaring loud enough to be audible by philosophers and indologists alike!<br /><br />As for point 1, I think that the problem lies in the confusion between different functions. If the editor reads the article looking for conceptual difficulties, inverted commas to be removed, misspelling, page-numbers to be added, etc., ALL at the same time, s/he will fail to accomplish an accurate job. Ideally, the editor could just focus on the content, a proof-reader on the typos and the person who prepares the lay-out on page-numbers, italics, etc. Even if all these roles are done by just one single person (but usually they are at least two), s/he should do them separately, I think, in order to focus on one task at a time. If this does not happen, one ends up with unnoticed typos, as you say.elisa freschihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17068583874519657894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6641738716446631837.post-65755582613754126232012-01-17T16:56:23.617+01:002012-01-17T16:56:23.617+01:00Hi Elisa,
you are right, the editor's work is ...Hi Elisa,<br />you are right, the editor's work is really of a "fun-and-learn" kind. Of course, in it there is as much fun so much you can learn... at least this is my personal opinion.<br />However, in response - or, better, as an integration - to your point 1, I must say that in my humble experience (both as editor and as author) I've remarked in several occasions that what nowadays we call editing work is nothing but a formatting work, which does no longer concern the typographic aspects of the article, book, paper (or whatever), rather its "shape" (where to put the pagenumbers, which character for the title, etc.)<br />For instance, and just to take my case into account, in some published papers of mine the reader can find typos or oversights that went unnoticed to me and that I discovered only once the work was already issued... why didn't the editor adjust the spelling by him/herself? Or, at least, why didn't s/he report to me those mistakes? Who knows!<br />In the few occasions I edited something, I did all my best in order to not bore the authors with double-spaces, inverted commas, typos etc., and I corrected them by myself... it's not a hard work, not at all!<br />On your point 2, as you know, I agree wholeheartedly! And let me roar, together with you, that Indian philosophy IS philosophy!!<br />:-)krishnahttp://en.krishna.deltoso.netnoreply@blogger.com