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Subject:Editors as ammunition From:"Sigrid A. Schoepel" <sas -at- WIGGINS -dot- PENTATECHINC -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 5 Aug 1996 09:06:59 -0500
>Dig up the CHICAGO MANUAL OF STYLE (from the University of Chicago Press)
>and use its section about how wonderful and important editors are as
>ammunition. -R. Plamondon
I've often wanted to stuff my editors in a cannon and fire it. I didn't realize that the Chicago Manual of Style advocated such things. This is going to be a good week. :)
Sigrid Schoepel
Senior Technical Writer
sas -at- pentatechinc -dot- com
Penta Technologies, Inc.
250 S. Executive Dr., Suite 201
Brookfield, WI 53005
The views expressed herein are mine, and do not necessarily represent those of Penta Technologies, Inc.
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