On 6/26/05, rose.parks@att.net rose.parks@att.net wrote:
First, I let both Anthere and Sj, the Editor-in-Chief of Quarto, know that I had to stop copyediting Quarto/3, a while ago (probably around May 26,) due to medical problems. I have no desire to share the nature of these problems.
So you did; however copyediting had never begun in earnest, and had stopped long before your message in late May. I regret not finding more people to help when your email requests did not turn anyone up; in the future there will be more people involved!
Second, the examples, which I cited from Quarto/3 were exactly that...examples. If it were simply a question of correcting a few sentences, of course, I would have done it. Unfortunately, these examples were a few of many, many, errors that remain in Quarto/3.
Be that as it may, copyediting is fairly painless, quick work; and only imposing when it piles up on you. Let's do it immediately on submission in the future. That's what I did for the first edition, which seemed to have made it easier on other editors.
SJ