In which I feel like a whippersnapper

[miriamjoyce]

When our kids first stumble upon a floppy disk or a file folder they are going to have this epiphany about where the "open" and "save" icons in their word processors came from.

I had a similar experience Friday. I had just been accepted onto on the freelance copy editor roster for my first publisher (yay!), and I was reading through all the

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[acer_genus]

You mean is something that your editor would see on a piece of paper that you wrote, telling him/her to use this kind of font?

[miriamjoyce]

Basically. It would tell them to apply whatever style they were using for that part of the text, in this case, the heading on the verso (left) page.

That way they can more easily change styles--if they decide at some point that that header should be bigger/smaller/a different font they don't have to change each one individually, they just change what style goes with . It's like a header () tag in html, instead of a bold or ital tag.

[miriamjoyce]

oops. LJ totally rendered my header tag like I meant it. that would have been "<" "h1" ">"