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> I hear that sometimes a publisher will do some copy editing at the end, but in my field there's nothing beyond some simple formatting checks. By "some copy e
by JadeNB 8y ago
> I hear that sometimes a publisher will do some copy editing at the end, but in my field there's nothing beyond some simple formatting checks.
By "some copy editing", what you surely mean is "a blind search and replace that introduces last-minute errors", which is the main effect of this copy-editing that I've seen.
- Fomite 8y agoI've actually had extremely good experiences with both copy editors and layout, including a journal - an Elsevier journal by checking - redoing a figure.
- JadeNB 8y agoThat's good to hear! It's probably my own fault for having fairly complicated TeX code for my files, but it's still frustrating.