Yearly TV Licence? ...Really? - ANSI Character Codes

[Carol]

-bboyminn:
> 
> The Internet is your friend.
> 
> ANSI Character Table 
> http://www.handheld-basic.com/documentation/text/page_599.html
> 
> Use the decimal number for the 'ALT' codes.

Carol responds:

Or it would be if I knew what ANSI meant. It's hard to look up
something whose existence you're unaware of. Also, I'm not sure what
you mean by using the decimal number for the ALT codes. Do I type a
period before the number as in a decimal fraction?

bboyminn:
> As to Copyediting falling out of fashion in hard economic
times...REALLY? So, crappy books are going to sell better than well
edited books? I don't think so.

Carol:
I'm not talking about copyediting at the major publishers, who have
their inhouse copyeditors. I'm talking about freelance copyediting
with private clients who work directly through me or through an
editing service, which takes a 40 % cut to handle the business
expenses and correspondence (raw deal for me, but saves me work I'd
rather not have to do). These private clients need their work
copyedited *before* they submit it to an agent or publisher (who would
otherwise take one look and throw it in the slush pile (or stuff it in
the provided SASE if the client is that savvy).

Copyediting *is* a luxury if you're a first-time novelist or self-help
author or whatever with no contacts, no experience, and no prospect of
being published unless you pay someone to edit your work. Those are
the people I work with most of the time. Consequently, in this
economy, business is slow. My last two prospective clients liked my
sample edits (first five pages edited free with a free minicritique
for the first fifteen) but are waiting to request a full edit until
they feel they can afford it. So all the work I put into the sample
edits has, so far, gone for nothing.

Carol, planning to get her Dumbledore-length hair cut and attend to
other things she's been putting off while she waits for a new project
to come in