David Chart wrote: > Warning: 'stet' is Latin for 'let it stand', and is what you write in > the margin to over-ride a copy editor's changes. 'To stet' is thus a bit > of a bastard hybrid, and therefore ideally suited to English.
Thanks, I actually looked it up -- I guess I could have provided a definition ;-) > Actually, the annotations get left in as well, which is even worse. > There's a net legend about comments on a contract clause saying > something like "This will really screw them over. Can we get away with > it? -- Bob. Yeah, they'll never notice. -- Edmund Blackadder. What a > cunning plan. -- Baldric." Ah, those stories. Yes, I've been bit. Nothing really negative but somewhat embarrassing -- I submitted a spec in Word to someone who converted it to WordPerfect (IIRC -- this 5 to 6 years ago) -- all the hidden text was displayed plain as day -- which was usually my annotation as to why something was in the spec, but it made it very verbose and confusing (and there were a few embarrassing parts). Randy Kramer
