manuscript

They take a raw manuscript and polish it up to professional standards.

We used a manuscript written by two professors in the department.

In fact, you're not allowed to read the original copies of the older manuscripts.

"Despite the threats, I refused to alter my manuscript or return the documents.

I'm not sure why we only consider that this manuscript is either a hoax or a forgotten language.

But some journals have acquired such prestige over the years that they can name their price, and the manuscript submissions will keep coming.

That's a misconception: an author writes a manuscript, a publisher makes it into a book.

Where was the tangible scientific contribution in this manuscript?

I don't know what the new digitized copies will add, but I'm guessing that they will be in color and that they will also include the more modern manuscripts in the collection.

Having run a site for writers I can guarantee you that an author's perfect final manuscript is still filled with typos, mistakes, and ripe for polishing from a trained professional.

In publishing production environments based on word-processing software, the default now is always to have just one space after each period in a manuscript.

I must admit I never conceived of this possibility, and I am still trying to digest it. I wonder how many authors who use Apple's product will realise that after two years of hard work to create a manuscript, just by hitting publish the outputted object will not wholly belong to them.

The error was caught by several mathematicians refereeing Wiles's manuscript.

I think it is possible that conferences and journals with new subscription models will slowly usurp a share of manuscript submissions away from journals with traditional models.

Instead, when you request a manuscript they hand you a CD that you then take down a flight of stairs to a room with iMac G4's that aren't connected to the Internet where you can view the jpeg's using some early 2000's image viewer.

Private collections have allowed us to preserve the physical artifacts of human creation over the centuries, but a manuscript sealed in the tomb of a museum quickly fades from the public consciousness.

While the description in the Google font database makes it out to be an award winning face for literature optimized for reading, its exaggerated serifs and uneven rhythm give it a kind of medieval / enlightened manuscript feel that just seems anachronistic and weird.