the table with your pencil once for each word, or both. Such a code need not be intelligible to others than yourself and your reader.
Do not waste time over matters of style. The proofreader is supposed to know the rules without your telling him; for instance, what titles are to be set in italics, and what roman-quoted.
Be careful in transferring marks. A mark in the wrong place means two errors uncorrected in place of one corrected.
In sending out proofs, see that everything is there. Arrange the copy and proof-sheets neatly and consecutively.
Never send out proofs, for the first time, without consulting the job ticket for the number wanted, and the name and address of the person to whom they are to be sent.
The manuscript should accompany the galley-proof; the foul proof (author's marked galley-proof) should accompany the page-proof. In case no galley-proof has been sent, the manuscript should accompany the page-proof.
Indicate in the lower left-hand comer the contents of all the envelopes you address.
Fasten your pins in the center at the top, not diagonally in the left-hand corner, thus covering up the directions, etc., often written there.
Return every evening to the file or the bookcase any volume that may have been taken out for reference during the day.
