SWET Newsletter, Number 20

Getting the Word Out: Newsletter Editing and Production [announcement: workshop]

Translator Alert! [invitation: meeting to form translators interest group]

New Directory in Press [announcement: projected mailing date]

The PrintStars (ref: PG) [meeting announcement: publishers/computer typesetters communication group]

Brave New Sekai (RMcC) [report: machine translation demonstration; commentary]

Howzzat Again? Or, Gilding the Lily [redundancy]

Fourth-Anniversary Party [report]

The SWETStars [report: WordStar users meeting]

Speaker: Wick Smith [introduction to computer communications]

Demonstration: SORD IS-11 laptop computer (ref: LB)

Tech Translators Confer [meeting report: SWET translators and Smithsonian East Asia Program]

SWETers Have a Yen [Book Service ordering progress]

Book Mavin at Work: Style Manuals, Part 2

Books: The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage: A Desk Book of Guidelines for Writers and Editors, revised; Los Angeles Times Stylebook: A Manual for Writers, Editors, Journalists and Students; The Washington Post Deskbook on Style; U.S. News & World Report Stylebook for Writers and Editors, 5th ed.; CBE Style Manual: A Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers in the Biological Sciences, 5th ed; Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 3rd ed.; MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations; NLRB Style Manual Washington, D.C.: National Labor Relations Board; Manual for Authors and Editors: Editorial Style and Manuscript Preparation

Book Mavin at Work: Update

    Book: U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual, 28th ed. [new edition]

Book Service Update [book ordering progress]

Book Service Order [No.] 7's Top 5 [books ordered]

Book Service Notices [exchange rate]

The SWET Bestsellers [top 10 books ordered to date]

The Guest Mavin (ST)

    Book: Author Law & Strategies: A Legal Guide for the Working Writer

Super SWET Publications [ordering information: Japan Style Sheet, Proofreader's Special]

SWETshop Previews [workshops: indexing; skills transfer (leaving Japan)]

From the New Yorker [humorous misprints]