George Herbert wrote:
We're not copyeditor friendly.
That said, a few loud, outgoing copyeditors wandering randomly around
dropping gems of rewrites here and there might have a wonderful
effect. If anyone knows such people, either in the project or
outside, encouraging them to work on that point would be a very useful
thing. Getting past the current copyeditor unfriendliness would be a
great long term improvement.
That unfriendliness helps to insure that those gifted copyeditors will
soon be out-going.
Keeping them around requires that the guardians of neutral correctness
be willing to engage in a dialogue about how best to improve a page.
Following the structure of a good sentence is not eased when a piece of
text is interrupted by long and frequent in-line references.
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