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The people who had galley proofs were handpicked by Murray and his publisher.
Hilbert's proofs, found this July at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin, reveal that crucial steps were missing at the time of his submission, which were filled in only after Einstein's paper came out.
All submitted articles are read by me; if they are worthy of consideration, they are read again, carefully, and styled for the compositor; by the time the proofs arrive, I am reading the article for the third time and cannot see all the horrible things the typesetter might have done.
Virtually all ambitious trade hardcover books are preceded by an edition of 100 to 200 flimsy "galley proofs."
Proofreaders use a special set of marks, signs and symbols to indicate on the gallery proofs the required corrections--deletions, insertions, size or type of fonts (lower case letters, capitals, bold face), space notations (size of paragraph indents, missing spaces between words or extra spaces within words, type and length of dash), etc.
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