Quality text editing

• Published in: Journal of Computer Science and Control Systems no. 2; p. 5
• Main Authors: Csernoch, Mária, Bujdosó, Gyöngyi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oradea University of Oradea 01.07.2009
• Subjects: Documents; Schools; Text editing; Typesetting; Word processing
• ISSN: 1844-6043; 2067-2101

Text editing is more than the knowledge of word processing techniques. Originally typographers, printers, text editors were the ones qualified to edit texts, which were well structured, legible, easily understandable, clear, and were able to emphasize the core of the text. Time has changed, and nowadays everyone has access to computers as well as to text editing software and most users believe that having these tools is enough to edit texts. However, text editing requires more skills. Texts appearing either in printed or in electronic form reveal that most of the users do not realize that they are not qualified to edit and publish their works. Analyzing the 'text-products' of the last decade a tendency can clearly be drawn. More and more documents appear, which instead of emphasizing the subject matter, are lost in the maze of unstructured text slices. Without further thoughts different font types, colors, sizes, strange arrangements of objects, etc. are applied. We present examples with the most common typographic and text editing errors. Our aim is to call the attention to these mistakes and persuade users to spend time to educate themselves in text editing. They have to realize that a well-structured text is able to strengthen the effect on the reader, thus the original message will reach the target group. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]