What is the absolute best text-to-speech (TTS) option? Oh yeah, must be free... [more inside]
posted by jluce50 on Jul 29, 2009 - 4 answers

How did you get your first freelance editing/proofreading job? [more inside]
posted by thesmallmachine on May 11, 2009 - 13 answers

Does anyone still use Words into Type? [more inside]
posted by scratch on Feb 18, 2009 - 6 answers

Does anyone know of a proofreading service that offers high end proofreading for professionals? [more inside]
posted by bucksox on Oct 26, 2008 - 9 answers

How much should you charge for proofreading and editing? [more inside]
posted by phaedrus441 on Aug 24, 2008 - 15 answers

Anyone ever worked as an editor/proofreader for science and mathematics articles not written by native English speakers? [more inside]
posted by number9dream on Jul 20, 2008 - 8 answers

WannabeEditorFilter: I hated my first year of grad school, with its accompanying anxiety attacks, no free time, surly students, and pages of really boring reading. I'm halfway through my Master's and I am dreading going back. [more inside]
posted by fiercecupcake on Feb 12, 2007 - 12 answers

I am editing a technical document that contains figures. One of these figures is referred to twice (on pages 13 and 33). What is the accepted way of dealing with this?

I want to show the figure twice, with different figure numbers. I think this will make it easy for the reader to see what's being referenced in both places. It doesn't bother me if the same picture has different figure numbers associated with it on different pages. It does, however, bother my boss, who wants to either show the figure only once and refer back to it in the second reference, or show it twice and use the same figure number in both places. (Have I explained that clearly enough?) (Chicago Manual of Style doesn't seem to address this.)
posted by booth on Jan 4, 2005 - 16 answers