September 05, 2004

Copyediting

Joho the Blog on the importance of copyediting and good page layout:
Here's how yesterday's front-page NY Times article about Bill Clinton's heart surgery ends before the leap to page 15:
My husband is doing very well, " she [Hillary] said, noting that he had beaten her
After the jump, we get the rest of the sentence:
and their daughter, Chelsea, at card games.
(I fixed an apparent typo in the quote copied from the NYT.) (9.7.04 update: Then I fixed a copyediting error of my own that caused this entry to break all the entries below it (unclosed p tag). How ironic.) [via Joho the Blog] Posted by johndan at September 5, 2004 06:42 PM | TrackBack