A tip for editors using PerfectIt and regularly dealing with authors using English as a second language.

If there are regular and repeatable oddities in their English (I deal with an author who uses the same incorrect vocab every time) create a PerfectIt style sheet just for them and run it every time you edit one of their books.

This will ensure consistency in your editing of their work, and if you have to hand them off to another editor you can pass on the style sheet.

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The first issue of my new newsletter, Notes on Editing, goes out Monday morning. It has an update on my upcoming LaTeX for Academic Editors course and an overview of how I use PerfectIt for LaTeX manuscripts. Sign up here if you’d like to get it: https://signup.wordsbywes.ink/notes-on-editing

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@somoroff @edibuddies My suggestion is #PerfectIt first, then look at ETK+. I use PerfectIt on every document. There's one macro I use in ETK frequently (revert change) and a handful of the other tools in it occasionally (combine files, word count for multiple files, manual styling -> word styles). I still have the prior version of ETK; a new one just came out that I haven't upgraded to yet.

@PamelaBarroway @BookwormYogi @somoroff @edibuddies #PerfectIt can't be used directly in Google Docs. What I do is export the doc to Word, run PerfectIt in Word, and make any needed changes manually in GDocs.