I’m blogging today at The Chicago Manual of Style Shop Talk blog:
CMOS 17 is almost here—and at the University of Chicago Press, that’s a really big deal. Every seven to ten years the team here revs up for an overhaul of The Chicago Manual of Style, and two to three years after that, the new edition appears.
We don’t start from scratch. Russell David Harper, the principal reviser of 17th editions of the Manual, started making notes for the 17th the minute . . .
Photo: Columbia Space Shuttle, courtesy of NASA.
