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From: "Cheri Casper" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Which source template to use for re-edited book?
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 16:24:37 -0800
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In doing legal editing, when you modify the capitalization of something you
put the letter in square brackets. Thus if a book title inadvertently lower
cased the "p" in "pilgrims" you could correct it to read [P]ilgrims. That
lets the reader know that you made the capitalization. I also use "sic" in
italics to indicate incorrect spellings in original material.


----- Original Message -----
From: beth <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 9:47 AM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Which source template to use for re-edited book?


> Hi John,
>
> I thank you for taking the time to hash this out with me...at the risk of
> trying your patience, I have a few more questions...
>
> 1) Would you follow the compilers names with "original compilers"? i.e.;
>
> Footnote:
> Ruth Wilder Sherman and Robert Moody Sherman, original compilers. ...
>
> Bibliography:
> Sherman, Ruth Wilder and Robert Moody Sherman, original compilers. ...
>
> 2) Would you use the phrase "re-edited by"? i.e.;
>
> Footnote:
> ..., re-edited by Robert S. Wakefield,
>
> Bibliography:
> ... Re-edited by Robert S. Wakefield.
>
> 3) I just noticed, while flipping through the bibliography in the Mills
> book, that she does attach CG, FASG, etc.; should I put those back in?
>
> 4) I'm hesitant to leave out "Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at
> Plymouth, Mass. December 1620" from the series element (though I wouldn't
> feel it necessary to include it in the Short Footnote). I question this
> because Mills says, on page 37 of her book;
>
> "If the title page of a book uses incorrect capitalization, it is
> permissible to correct the usage in our citations. We cannot change the
> words of the title, but we can properly captialize them."
>
> She doesn't explicitly say we cannot omit title words, but I wonder if the
> above statement implicitly prohibits ommissions. Does the CMS address
> this? Thoughts appreciated.
> -----
> I'm trying not to be obsessive-compulsive about this, but I do want to try
> to set up this source properly. I do conciously commit a few faux-pas
> though; I insert the word "page" before a page number in the CD, even
> though Mills says not to, and I do spell out words such as compiler,
> editor, volume, etc. I guess the style-police will be after me soon.
>
> thanks, beth
>
> p.s. as to your question about the placement of [CD1] and [CD2] - in the
> template I changed [CD1] to [EDITOR] and [CD2] to [CD].
>

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