Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminary copy-editing, design and specimen pages
- 3 Preparing the text for the typesetter
- 4 Illustrations
- 5 Proofs
- 6 House style
- 7 Preliminary pages
- 8 Indexes
- 9 Other parts of a book
- 10 Bibliographical references
- 11 Literary material
- 12 Multi-author and multi-volume works
- 13 Science and mathematics books
- 14 Other special subjects
- 15 Reprints and new editions
- 16 On-screen editing
- Appendixes
- 1 Checklist of copy-editing
- 2 Book sizes
- 3 Abbreviations for states in the USA
- 4 Phonetic symbols
- 5 The Russian alphabet
- 6 Old English and Middle English letters
- 7 French and German bibliographical terms and abbreviations
- 8 Mathematical symbols
- 9 Hebrew
- 10 Arabic
- 11 Islamic, Chinese, Japanese and French Revolutionary calendars
- 12 Countries of the former USSR, Baltic states and former Yugoslavia
- 13 Proof correction symbols
- 14 How to check that an ISBN is correct
- Glossary
- Select bibliography and other resources
- Index
8 - Mathematical symbols
from Appendixes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface to the fourth edition
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to the second edition
- Preface to the first edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Preliminary copy-editing, design and specimen pages
- 3 Preparing the text for the typesetter
- 4 Illustrations
- 5 Proofs
- 6 House style
- 7 Preliminary pages
- 8 Indexes
- 9 Other parts of a book
- 10 Bibliographical references
- 11 Literary material
- 12 Multi-author and multi-volume works
- 13 Science and mathematics books
- 14 Other special subjects
- 15 Reprints and new editions
- 16 On-screen editing
- Appendixes
- 1 Checklist of copy-editing
- 2 Book sizes
- 3 Abbreviations for states in the USA
- 4 Phonetic symbols
- 5 The Russian alphabet
- 6 Old English and Middle English letters
- 7 French and German bibliographical terms and abbreviations
- 8 Mathematical symbols
- 9 Hebrew
- 10 Arabic
- 11 Islamic, Chinese, Japanese and French Revolutionary calendars
- 12 Countries of the former USSR, Baltic states and former Yugoslavia
- 13 Proof correction symbols
- 14 How to check that an ISBN is correct
- Glossary
- Select bibliography and other resources
- Index
Summary
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- Butcher's Copy-editingThe Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Copy-editors and Proofreaders, pp. 462 - 465Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006