Resources

Facts are truly at our fingertips: the web could have been invented just to make editors’ lives easier. Essential sites include:

Not that the printed word has been superseded: two highly recommended books are Copy-Editing: The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and Publishers, by Judith Butcher (3rd edn, 1992), and The Penguin Guide to Punctuation, by R. L. Trask (1997). Both are models of clarity and good sense.

Acknowledgement

This website would not have appeared in its present form without the guidance of The CSS Cookbook, by Christopher Schmitt (2004), and HTML Utopia, by Dan Shafer (2004). It was created with the help of Mozilla and Nvu software, and is regularly tuned with Crimson Editor. Information, advice and links from the following websites, among others, were also valuable:

Finally, the blackbird logo is based on an engraving in William Yarrell’s A History of British Birds (4th edn, vol. 1, rev. Alfred Newton, 1871).

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