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Anne Louise Mahoney

Learning to Love Style Sheets

November 9, 2023 by Anne Louise Mahoney | 16 Comments on Learning to Love Style Sheets

As a copy editor, how do you feel about creating a style sheet for each project you work on? I’ve found myself in each of these camps at various times, depending on how busy my work schedule is, how complex the project is, how confident I’m feeling and what clients expect. With practice, though, I’ve […]

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Lesley Cameron

Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

December 15, 2020 by Lesley Cameron | 4 Comments on Style Sheets: Your New Best Friend

At an Editors’ Vine virtual meeting in November, Editors Canada member Lesley Cameron presented “Getting the Most from Style Sheets.” Here are some of the highlights from her talk. The primary function of a style sheet is to record all style decisions about a text to ensure consistency within a document. That, in turn, can […]

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Aaron Dalton

Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

November 5, 2019 by Aaron Dalton | 5 Comments on Checklists: Sharing Knowledge

I’ve spent most of my career in-house. Currently I work with dozens of individual authors from all across the organization on a diverse array of document types. Though our editorial team works as a pool, a certain degree of specialization is unavoidable. We need to be able to record and share institutional knowledge amongst ourselves […]

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Standards Communication Task Force

Standards at Work: Fiction Editing

October 2, 2018 by Elizabeth d'Anjou, Standards Communication Task Force | 3 Comments on Standards at Work: Fiction Editing

Editors Canada’s Professional Editorial Standards (PES) describe the responsibilities of an editor. The scope of PES is broad; this series explores how the standards apply to a variety of editing contexts. Karen Conlin is a freelance editor specializing in speculative fiction and young adult fiction (YA). She does structural, stylistic and copy editing, mostly for […]

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