A new look seemed in order, so violà. The content update reflects my continuing employment as a technical editor and my evolving editing skills. I’m still working on updating all of the content, but the cosmetic change is, I hope, mostly complete.
So, why GitHub? What does GitHub have to do with these text editors I've been going on about? What is GitHub, even? Well, actually, it all starts with Git. Git is what ordinary people with Word files with names like project_v7_final_final.docx don't know they wish they had. Unfortunately, Git can't do what it does on... Continue Reading →
I loved Atom. I really did. But, for all that I am a copyeditor and proofreader, I can't catch my own errors for the life of me. And, no amount of fiddling behind the scenes could get Atom's spell check to work on my Mac. It worked on the crashy Linux box, but not on... Continue Reading →
After 20 years, I decided to brush up on HTML and try to finally pick up CSS. To make things more exciting than they needed to be, I determined that I would also learn to use Git and Linux at that same time. This is how I discovered the code editor I eventually installed on... Continue Reading →
Not a stylebook in the traditional sense, Dreyer's English makes a good 21st-century follow-up to the somewhat outdated Strunk and White's Elements of Style. Like his predecessors, Dreyer's goal was not to write an all-encompassing manual of style but rather a book to share his own experience and opinions. But where Strunk and White sought... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Merchán | Editing 