Rainer M Krug wrote:
Well - I am fed up with fighting them - they will not get my money and I
will send it to another proofreader.
That's the rigth way. Bad service - drop them.
Surely there are enough proofreaders that will work with printed material.
You may want to inform that language
I am a proof reader at a journal of my departement (political
science) and I always kindly ask every author to simply send me an
RTF and to do no formatting whatsoever (I always change it all in a
font and format that I find easy to read as in the layout it's being
changed anyway but people
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Rainer M Krug wrote:
Thakns - I feel much better now.
I thought exactly the same. And in addition, if you want to have track
changes enabled, you have to specify it - this is more then bad practise I
would say.
LyX has a word count feature; at worst, export to ASCII text
> I wanted my thesis to be proofread at my university, and the language lab
> told me they ONLY accept word doc files. So I am wondering? are they
> trange
> or do I have strange ideas about doc for proofreading? I would have
> expected
> them to work in pdf or hardcopies.
>
That's frustrating
Hi Rich,
On 30/01/2008, Rich Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
> > I wanted my thesis to be proofread at my university, and the language
> lab
> > told me they ONLY accept word doc files. So I am wondering? are they
> > trange or do I have strange i
Rich Shepard wrote:
Talk with your major advisor and get him/her on your side. It's much
easier to mark up and make revisions on a paper copy. Then, drag the
language lab into the 20th century.
You mean "back to the 20th century", right? :-) My guess is that the
proofreaders use the chang
Rainer M Krug schrieb:
I wanted my thesis to be proofread at my university, and the language lab
told me they ONLY accept word doc files. So I am wondering? are they trange
or do I have strange ideas about doc for proofreading? I would have expected
them to work in pdf or hardcopies.
Everybody
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Rainer M Krug wrote:
I wanted my thesis to be proofread at my university, and the language lab
told me they ONLY accept word doc files. So I am wondering? are they
trange or do I have strange ideas about doc for proofreading? I would have
expected them to work in pdf or hard
Hi
I wanted my thesis to be proofread at my university, and the language lab
told me they ONLY accept word doc files. So I am wondering? are they trange
or do I have strange ideas about doc for proofreading? I would have expected
them to work in pdf or hardcopies.
Rainer
