Oh yeaaah ... I'm an editor!

I received the files for a freelance job today, due by the end of the week. Woot! Both content editing and formatting, this time, for a dissertation meant for a different university. Nice. Here's hoping I can keep the taint of the internetz out of my editing long enough to get through the document.

This also gives me a chance to compare our formatting guide with the other school's, and our MS Word template vs. theirs. I'm already jealous of their fabulous formatting guide cover. (/sigh) My client pointed out some problems with their template that I managed to address with ours, as well, so I'll have to take a closer look at that as I go.

I also recently discovered that one of the changes from MS Word 2003 to 2007 seems to have perma-glitched my template's subheading settings for 2007 users, unless they use exactly what I've programmed into it and don't deviate from that at all. Which isn't very helpful, IMO. The previous system was incredibly intuitive, and the new version seems to have taken a perfectly reasonable, concrete setup option for programming subhead numbering and zapped it into a fine mist that permeates the program in a decentralized miasma.

Microsoft, I shake my fist at thee! Grr!

Also, I signed up for the TeX Users Group free workshop day for LaTeX. /happy dance!