Though I’d much rather announce “I weigh 70 kg,” metric hasn’t entirely stuck in Canada. We use a simperial system that I’ve
Category: outside posts
Simperial podcast — Converting units for Canada
The soft and hard of converting imperial measurements to metric for a Canadian audience are covered in this episode, an
HTML for copy editors (and XML too)
As digital products take over the publishing field, copy editors and other publishing pros will find that adding basic HTML
Tackling paralysis with soft edit and Note Stripper
When footnotes are a formatting nightmare, Note Stripper saves the day. End notes too. Also, Adrienne sings “soft edit” to help
That With Which I Will Put Up
Thou shalt smitest those who wouldst alter thine language most sacred. Or, move on to something more consequential; you’re standing
Stages of editing — podcast
The stages of editing are discussed in this episode, but they’re not the stages you’re used to (one is depicted here). It’s
Do Quotes Deserve Clean-up?
In my Canadian, Eh? post this week on Copyediting.com, I argue that we editors should clean up quotes at least
Society for the preservation of Canadian spelling
My guest post today appears on the Editors’ Weekly, the blog of the Editors’ Association of Canada. In “This Book
Converting Measurements
This week’s Canadian, Eh? column on Copyediting.com focusses on making conversions between imperial and metric, also known as SI which is short