This editorial step ensures that text is mechanically sound, internally consistent, and adheres to the publisher's style guide. The process catches spelling errors, fixes awkward phrasing, and applies structural markup so the compositor or layout artist knows exactly how to style headings, body text, and captions.
Heard on the job
Make sure you copyedit the author's revisions before we flow them into the final layout document.
Also heard as
- subedit