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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dioltach" data-source="post: 8711384" data-attributes="member: 21843">"Editor" means a lot of different things. In book publishing, it can mean someone who decides what gets published and in what form (a "publishing editor", if I've got my terminology right), or someone who reviews the text for logic, consistency and style (a "copy editor"). Proofreading is supposedly the very final stage before printing, and I've worked with copy editors who don't consider anything below the level of sentence structure to be their job, but personally I include proofreading in the copy-editing stage.As for a professional proofreader (or copy editor) vs RPG insider: go with the professional. A good professional will scrutinise the text more closely than any amateur ever will, and do their utmost to make the text easy to read and understand. If anything is unclear they will add a question or comment, and follow up to make sure that it's sorted out. It can actually help sometimes to get an outsider's perspective.As an editor, I'll say that the text is more important than the layout - you can always read up on some basic principles and then play around with margins, fonts and so on to find a design that you find visually pleasing. But a layout professional will probably disagree. Whatever you do, make sure that every single page looks just as you want it - never assume that the software will do the work for you.</blockquote>