On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 7:43 AM, don kretz <dakretz@gmail.com> wrote:
Re the two-round system:
> Clean, simple, and most importantly it provides each person
> with the immediate and obvous positive gratification of
> seeing their work self-evidently closing the gap between
> the text and the picture.
Yes, and it often produced godawful results. If the R2 proofrer was
sloppy, a sloppy text went to the PPer. Some PPers exhausted
themselves reproofing the text to fix the mistakes that R2 had left.
Others just processed the text and sent it off to PG, warts and all.
One R2 proofer had proofed an astonishing number of pages ... but he
did so by smoothreading them hurriedly, without checking against the
image. He missed many errors.
PPers complained. Readers of PG texts complained. The current workflow
at DP is a *reaction* to the previous lack of quality control. That's
why P3ers have to pass a test. That's why proofing and formatting were
separated. OK, our quality control is strangling us. I don't think the
answer is to go back to the good old days of two rounds and
error-ridden texts.
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Karen Lofstrom