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Proofreading means check everything, preferably before the PDF stage. Yes, even the boilerplate that was picked up from a previous book.
The person who did the previous pass on this book seems to have been focusing on layout stuff. Mercifully, they had marked a layout fix on the table of formulas, so I was looking at it (in theory, at PDFs, I'm looking only to see whether already-marked corrections have been made, and that no random splotches have turned up nor material vanished, I'm not reading the copy), and saw that a 3 had turned into a 2. That's nontrivial when it happens in the formula for the volume of a cube.
I found the editor in question, who was understandably unhappy at the problem, especially since it was in boilerplate. She checked, and the copy was right last year, and in the other book they've currently got it in--but wrong in the exact same way in all four places it's used in this book (which all had the same layout problem, and fix). She thanked me for finding it, and my supervisor said "Good catch."
This set of PDFs is getting a closer eye than usual. I've found nothing else remotely as bad, fortunately (I was almost done with them when I left for the day).
The person who did the previous pass on this book seems to have been focusing on layout stuff. Mercifully, they had marked a layout fix on the table of formulas, so I was looking at it (in theory, at PDFs, I'm looking only to see whether already-marked corrections have been made, and that no random splotches have turned up nor material vanished, I'm not reading the copy), and saw that a 3 had turned into a 2. That's nontrivial when it happens in the formula for the volume of a cube.
I found the editor in question, who was understandably unhappy at the problem, especially since it was in boilerplate. She checked, and the copy was right last year, and in the other book they've currently got it in--but wrong in the exact same way in all four places it's used in this book (which all had the same layout problem, and fix). She thanked me for finding it, and my supervisor said "Good catch."
This set of PDFs is getting a closer eye than usual. I've found nothing else remotely as bad, fortunately (I was almost done with them when I left for the day).
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