#EXAMDIFF PRO IN DECISION TREE FOR MAC#

Luckily Word 14.6.4 for Mac - from Office 2011 - did the job without freezes or crashes. I suppose it's an improvement over last summer's experience reviewing the CEM for Empire Games, when Word 15 reliably crashed on me instead of merely twiddling its thumbs for a minute until it was ready for new input, but it's still unacceptable in a commercial product, especially a year after it went on sale, with updates applied. Selecting and italicising a single word using direct formatting should not cause a quad-core i7 Macbook Pro with 16Gb of RAM to freeze on me for 30-60 seconds every time. What I blame Microsoft for is that Word 15.22.1 for Mac is still not fit for purpose in reviewing change-tracked documents of any length. I had to crawl on hands and knees through an entire 450-page novel, putting back all the dropped italics in dialog (and because it's a Bob novel, he waxes sarcastic in the direction of the reader a lot). Nor was it possible to compare/merge the submitted draft with the copy-edited draft. And by the time I got a chance to discover the missing italics, it was no longer possible to undo everything - not without re-doing approximately 3000 minor edits and 200 comments. But then, I expected him to: he's the guy who's checked all the previous Laundry Files novels.) But in the process of fixing my admittedly-sloppy grammar and inconsistent usage he made a huge number of individually-trivial tweaks to the change-tracked Word document.

(I want to emphasize that he did a good job of copy-editing.

Given a manuscript containing no italics, my copy editor did the right thing: he italicised those things that needed it, per the style sheet (such as some quotations and the titles of newspapers), and nothing else. Have I explained recently why I hate Microsoft Word? And of course, someone ran a conversion macro or a filter or an inadvisable global search/replace, and. One of the things about the business of writing trade fiction for a traditional publisher is that authors are expected to submit a manuscript in something approximating 'standard manuscript format', a hold-over from the days of typewriters and carbon paper - you use 10 point Courier monospace typeface, double-spaced, two inch margins all round, paragraphs start with a tab, two spaces after every period, and italics are indicated by underlining. This was the first time I'd worked with this particular publisher on production, and somewhere between me submitting the manuscript and them sending it off to the copy editor (who is an external freelancer), all the italics went missing. Normally this is straightforward enough (although there are horror stories about CE's trying to rewrite a novel instead of just fixing it for grammatical consistency).

#EXAMDIFF PRO IN DECISION TREE SERIAL#

Does the author write seventeen in one place or 17 in another? (Pick one.) Is the formatting of chapter titles consistent? Do they use the serial or Oxford comma convention, or not, and if not, is it needed? (And so on.) The copy editor does the heavy legwork of changing the manuscript, and the author then gets to go over it to review and approve their work. A lot of this process is normalization and regularization of usage and grammar and spelling. Copy editing is the process whereby a copy editor goes through an author's manuscript and turns it into something that might, once typeset, pass inspection as a book.

Examdiff pro in decision tree