Wowsers. Mercifully, we never did anything like that. Hard edits were saved for when we had set the pieces we'd accepted - soft edits for just going through things, ie. spelling, obvious grammatical errors.
But seriously, this is what style sheets are for - you have a style that is agreed upon for the overall book, then you go through piece by piece and pick out things you think are issues, run it past the other editors and they'll either accept or reject things.
I know in one story, I made a note that "hell" ought to be in caps because we were capping "God" - but while it's an interesting point, it went against the house style.
To this day, I'm convinced that editing is like teaching--just because someone has a piece of paper saying they are qualified to do something doesn't actually mean they should be doing it. LOL
Hell, you could say that about a lot of things in life. Including TEH BIOLOGY DEGREEZ! *facepalm*
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Date: 2006-10-21 04:26 pm (UTC)But seriously, this is what style sheets are for - you have a style that is agreed upon for the overall book, then you go through piece by piece and pick out things you think are issues, run it past the other editors and they'll either accept or reject things.
I know in one story, I made a note that "hell" ought to be in caps because we were capping "God" - but while it's an interesting point, it went against the house style.
To this day, I'm convinced that editing is like teaching--just because someone has a piece of paper saying they are qualified to do something doesn't actually mean they should be doing it. LOL
Hell, you could say that about a lot of things in life. Including TEH BIOLOGY DEGREEZ! *facepalm*