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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 4316401" data-attributes="member: 447">I seem to remember hearing somewhere that they use InDesign for the Mac. I could be wrong, of course.No copyeditor is perfect. Even stellar copyeditors miss stuff from time to time. Sometimes &quot;bonehead&quot; stuff that they look at two days later and curse a blue streak because they missed it. The memory cheats, and perception is faulty. You read a passage of text five times, and it looks just fine, but your mind has filled in a blank word where none exists, or edited out a superfluous word as if it doesn't. Humans, in short.Deadlines loom, procedures give way to shortcuts, and there just isn't time for that one last &quot;sanity&quot; spellcheck that would have caught &quot;dawizard&quot; or &quot;page XX.&quot; That errors slipped through is not merely unsurprising, it's expected. The more so in a project the size of the Core Rulebooks, which amount to, what, over 600 pages of fairly dense text? At the same time, just to make things fun, the marketing materials need proofing, the covers have come back with faulty color registration, somebody's baby needs to go to the E.R. RIGHT NOW, and somebody's stalking the halls snarling about the &quot;GSL&quot; but nobody wants to get close enough to find out who it is. This is a hypothetical scenario of course, but a publisher's life is a mess.Not because WOTC is sloppy (AFAICT, they're anything but), but because it just is. Now I'm not saying we should be endlessly thankful for the books we got, but sometimes the fact that things got done with anything like 95% (maybe 99%!) perfection is astounding... literally astounding. As much as I might have done a few things differently, I think WOTC did a great job with the books themselves, and my hat's off to them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 4316401, member: 447"] I seem to remember hearing somewhere that they use InDesign for the Mac. I could be wrong, of course. No copyeditor is perfect. Even stellar copyeditors miss stuff from time to time. Sometimes "bonehead" stuff that they look at two days later and curse a blue streak because they missed it. The memory cheats, and perception is faulty. You read a passage of text five times, and it looks just fine, but your mind has filled in a blank word where none exists, or edited out a superfluous word as if it doesn't. Humans, in short. Deadlines loom, procedures give way to shortcuts, and there just isn't time for that one last "sanity" spellcheck that would have caught "dawizard" or "page XX." That errors slipped through is not merely unsurprising, it's expected. The more so in a project the size of the Core Rulebooks, which amount to, what, over 600 pages of fairly dense text? At the same time, just to make things fun, the marketing materials need proofing, the covers have come back with faulty color registration, somebody's baby needs to go to the E.R. RIGHT NOW, and somebody's stalking the halls snarling about the "GSL" but nobody wants to get close enough to find out who it is. This is a hypothetical scenario of course, but a publisher's life is a mess. Not because WOTC is sloppy (AFAICT, they're anything but), but because it just is. Now I'm not saying we should be endlessly thankful for the books we got, but sometimes the fact that things got done with anything like 95% (maybe 99%!) perfection is astounding... literally astounding. As much as I might have done a few things differently, I think WOTC did a great job with the books themselves, and my hat's off to them. [/QUOTE]

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