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Re: proofreading lament



At 19:41 4/1/98 -0500, William Larson wrote:
On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, David Bowman wrote:
What proofreading tricks to the rest of you use to see your own typos?
I'm getting desperate here.

... To catch more subtle errors, print it out & read
the hard copy.

Bill Larson
Geneva

Bill's recipe is likely to trap more problems than any other method
which uses no innocent bystanders.
Another option which I find fruitful is to self-address material
which I would prefer to be low on errors.
This provides that distance which lends the enchantment that is so
helpful to objective examination, I suggest.

Whatcott Altus OK