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If you’re an Australian with Telstra and are contemplating a cruise, be aware that Telstra’s daily international roaming/day pass fee (e.g. $5/day for NZ, $10/day for US) DOES NOT cover any time your phone might say ‘Cellular at Sea’ or similar and you...

My review of Draftsmith, the new product from Intelligent Editing (developers of PerfectIt), was published by IPEd today: https://www.iped-editors.org/february-2024/review-draftsmith-certainly-has-a-place-in-an-editors-toolbox/
Draftsmith integrates ChatGPT with Microsoft Word in a seamless way. Although its target market is writers in the draft stages, it certainly has a place in an editor’s toolbox....

Someone on an editors’ Facebook group asked: ‘Is there a non-macro, non additional software way to select all equations on a manuscript in order to change their color?
I’ve tried to find, without success, if equations use an style that you can tamper with, or if the equation tab has such an option. It’s an engineering manuscript, and going one by one would take forever.’...

The Chicago Manual of Style (CMOS) summarises the differences between these punctuation marks: https://cmosshoptalk.com/2024/01/23/hyphens-and-dashes-a-refresher/
Note, this is from CMOS (a US style guide) and other style guides may differ about spacing around such characters. However, most will agree on en dashes for ranges and em dashes for parenthetical points. For example, the Australian Government Style Manual...