[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Publication Date

[Janette]

>
> Catlady:


> What is typecoding?
>
Carol:
Oh, my. How can I explain? Typecoding, also called manuscript markup,
involves providing certain codes for the typesetter to indicate a
specific font or typesize or other element of the book design. For
example, a particular code might be used to indicate a drop capital at
the beginning of a chapter or an extracted quotation. A letter might
be set in a different typeface from the rest of the text (for example
Hagrid's letters in the HP books--the American designer may even have
incorporated the tear splotches as well as the font into the design,
and the typecoder would need to invent a specific code, say <haglet>
to indicate a letter from Hagrid to be set in that particular style.
Other codes, say CT for chapter title or UNL for unnumbered list, are
farily standard if not universal among American publishers. (I've
never typecoded a manuscript for a British publisher, but it can't be
very different.)

montims:
that is interesting, but what is the difference between that and
proofreading?  It sounds like what I imagine a proofreader doing, although
maybe things have changed since I learnt proof codes...


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