copyedit
The process or act of copyediting a document.
Noun
- The process or act of copyediting a document.
- A copyedit is the final type of edit performed on documents. - 1996, Dorothy L. Cady, Bulletproof Documentation: Creating Quality Through Testing, page 89:
- The copyedit may be strictly mechanical or may include stylistic changes. - 2016, Leslie Vermeer, The Complete Canadian Book Editor, page 35:
- The result of copyediting a document.
- Your production editor will probably not contact you until the due date of the copyedit is established in-house. - 2006, Brian Fagan, Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories About the Past, page 129:
- A single change to the text of a document that is an instance of copyediting.
- For example, if the author is responsible for inserting the copyedits into the source files, then there are repercussions later on when changes are made during the page formatting stage. - 1991, TEX Users Group,...
- The copyedits in science.net — a game designed for middle school students — were somewhat less blunt, but they were supposed to retain the other salient features of the original. - 2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt...
Origin
Back-formation from copy editor.
Forms
Verb
- To correct the spelling, grammar, formatting, etc. of printed material and prepare it for typesetting, printing, or online publishing.
- Memoirs of a Bastard Angel contains so many amazing howlers that it seems barely to have been copyedited or proofread. - 1990 April 28, Duncan Mitchell, “A Dazzling Parade Of Celebrity Names”, in Gay Community News,...
Synonyms: subedit