...Dean Swift is good : — ** Then, rising with Aurora's light, The muse invok'd, sit down to write ; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish,...fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails." Oar Work-table friends express their opinions on that department of our work ; and we can assure them,...

...and tried out the new METAFONT on Stanford students in 1984. Like Jonathan Swift, he exhorted all to Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish,...invention fails, To scratch your Head, and bite your Nails.48 Many of the exercises from the Stanford course found their way into The METAFONTl)ook, published...

...final bit of advice from a gifted 69 and hard-working writer, one who wrote widely, wisely, and well. Blot out, correct, insert, refine Enlarge, diminish,...fails, to scratch your head, and bite your nails. — Jonathan Swift About the Authors David Hatcher and Lane Goddard teach writing and speaking classes...

...many questions. 13 The Best Editor you Never Had "Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, dimmish, interline; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails. " Jonathan Swift, on editing. We all know the first principle of editing: "If you can cut, then cut,"...