RE: What to look for in a technical editor

["Dick Margulis " <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net>]

But, Bill, there's a logical lacuna in your argument that is big enough to drive a hummer through. If it is correctly written technical information, then there is no grammatical goof for the editor to screw up by fixing it.

"Bill Swallow" <wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com> wrote:

>Exactly. No, you're not missing something. In cases where you are writing
>for an extremely technical audience, they will more than not read right over
>the grammatical goof and absorb the correctly-written technical information.
>
>Bill Swallow
>wswallow -at- nycap -dot- rr -dot- com
>
>
>::: -----Original Message-----
>::: An editor encounters an ungrammatical and therefore ambiguous and 
>::: therefore logically meaningless string of words (not technically a 
>::: sentence). The editor moves a comma, rendering the string 
>::: of words into 
>::: a well-formed sentence that has an unambigous meaning. 
>::: This, somehow, 
>::: causes text that was formerly technically correct to become 
>::: technically 
>::: incorrect. Therefore, Bill and you conclude, the reader is 
>::: better served 
>::: by the unedited text.
>::: 
>::: Am I missing something?
>
>

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