{\TeX\ and copyediting}
{SK Venkatesan and CV Rajagopal}
{Copyediting of a manuscript involves bringing consistency at many
levels, with many kinds of local and non-local changes.

The \LaTeX{} macros of the proposed \textsf{copyediting} package offer
an excellent way to create a markup that can string together all the
types of changes that are made by a copyeditor in a consistent
way. The English language also has certain localization requirements that
could be handled through language switches in the spirit of Babel
package.  Localization can be achieved through macros such as
\cs{vara\char`\{color\char`\}} that take care of variant
spellings. We also propose further a family of macros for other
copyediting requirements such as parenthetical commas, serial commas,
Latin abbreviations, first-secondly-thirdly, \dots{} This copyediting
package will simplify the task of copyediting and bring a higher level
of quality to the final output.}