FEEDBACK feels the need to launch the Society for the Promotion of Numerate Proofreading (SPNP). Clearly, a scientist who quickly skims a paper, skipping the equations, knows she is going to have to go back and read it properly. The temptation for a proofreader to check the words but skip the funny squiggly numeral things must, similarly, be resisted.
“Alex di Giovanni’s Internet-Linked French for Beginners book from Usborne promises “a complete list of numbers on page 40”. How wide are those margins, then?”
Furthermore, it is a good idea to consider who your readers might…
