I actually did a legal proofreading course (proofreadertraining.com) and I noted the same things that you did. A friend told me about a legal proofreading course taught by a guy who still does legal and financial proofreading for work, and he teaches classes too. Seems he does both and has a ton of experience with the financial part--that's the EDGAR (electronic data gathering and retrieval--an SEC searchable database [see how much I know now--whoohoo! :)]) Anyway, back to the point. I did the legal proofreading class and got a pretty thorough understanding of it all.
Re: Redlining and blacklining--while there are differences, it seems to me that the terms are used interchangeably once you're out there. Redlining and blacklining show the differences/changes that have been made to documents as they progress through cycles (versions, basically). The SEC wants to know what changes have been made between preliminary filings and filings of their documents, like annual reports, stock offerings, and so forth. New text is underlined, and marks are made for text that has been changed or deleted--thus, changes are kept track of / tracked. EDGAR is important, but if you have no proofreading experience I would do a course. I had good luck with mine and would recommend it.
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Date: 2006-10-14 09:05 pm (UTC)Re: Redlining and blacklining--while there are differences, it seems to me that the terms are used interchangeably once you're out there. Redlining and blacklining show the differences/changes that have been made to documents as they progress through cycles (versions, basically). The SEC wants to know what changes have been made between preliminary filings and filings of their documents, like annual reports, stock offerings, and so forth. New text is underlined, and marks are made for text that has been changed or deleted--thus, changes are kept track of / tracked. EDGAR is important, but if you have no proofreading experience I would do a course. I had good luck with mine and would recommend it.