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Publishing

Typescript

The typed or printed version of a text — the precise term for what is commonly called a "manuscript."

The typescript is a text's typed version — first by typewriter, today printed from a word processor. The term precisely distinguishes what common usage merges: literally, almost no one submits manuscripts anymore; everyone submits typescripts.

In the publishing chain the term keeps a technical use: it names the text's state between writing and typesetting — the one the editor and copyeditor annotate before layout. Knowing the word also means speaking the trade's language: in a publishing house, "the annotated typescript" and "the corrected proofs" are two distinct, successive stages of the same book.

Example

The editor returns the annotated typescript; the author decides, then the text goes to typesetting.

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