"He is now in the printing office every afternoon, compiling teaching materials."
"Compile teaching materials?" Jin Xiaoyu thought that he had just hinted to him a few days ago that it was taboo to write teaching materials privately, but he didn't expect that he still persisted in it!
Let's see how I deal with him! Jin Xiaoyu's brows raised, Jing Chu felt scared and said quickly: "This, this... don't say it was me..."
"Don't worry! I'll protect you." Jin Xiaoyu patted his chest and promised, "Where is this printing place?"
"Just opposite the school..."
The "Kaohsiung National School Printing Factory" is across the road from the school. It is a small independent courtyard with a masonry structure, closed and solid. It only has a door number, not a nameplate, and it is a local and undisclosed institution.
Because Jin Xiaoyu was a veteran, it was very convenient for him to enter the printing office.
Although the printing house is small, it is well-equipped. Although the equipment is backward - all of them were eliminated due to the high-end, but typesetting, printing, paper cutting, binding... everything is available. Five or six workers are busy. Jin Xiaoyu thought that everything printed here
It was school textbooks, test papers and the like. Unexpectedly, what was being printed was the latest issue of "Kaohsiung Daily".
This "Kaohsiung Daily" is a local newspaper, it is said to be a daily newspaper, but due to the shortage of materials and personnel, it can only be published once a week. Five copies are delivered to the school every week. Jin Xiaoyu has also read it briefly, and it is quite boring.
Of course, even a small Kaohsiung cannot have any sensational social news every day. As for national events, it just reprints the contents of the "Lingao Times". However, it has a literary supplement "Zhu Hibiscus", which is worth it.
At first glance, many of them are poems, essays, novels and the like written by naturalized people, with a wide range of subjects, and most of them are written in vernacular. Some of the novels seem to have the charm of Ming and Qing novels. Especially the strange novels serialized above
, and is Jin Xiaoyu’s favorite.
Why does the school printing office still print newspapers?
After asking the person in charge, she found out that Xiang Tianying was in the editing room at the back. She then walked through the patio and came to the backyard.
It turns out that this backyard is unique. There are several rows of masonry houses with different brands. The first bungalow is the "editor's room". It has a unique appearance, with rows of windows that are bright and dazzling, and there is another floor outside.
Sun protection net.
Pushing the door open and going in, I saw Xiang Tianying and two naturalized citizens each occupying a large table, looking at the manuscript with such concentration that they didn't even notice her coming in. On the table at the door and on the bookshelf against the wall
, there were piles of paper everywhere, and there was a smell of ink in the air.
Is she compiling textbooks? Although she has never compiled textbooks, she saw that Hu Qingbai and others had done so. They had piles of various books and dictionaries on hand, but not a pile of printed manuscripts.
She walked quietly behind Xiang Tianying and patted him on the shoulder. Xiang Tianying was frightened, and when he looked back, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"You want to scare me to death..." he complained, "Why are you here?"
"What? Can't I come? Or is there a little secret of yours here?"
"Hehe, there's no little secret." Xiang Tianying was slightly embarrassed, "It's my little personal business." After that, he turned back to the two naturalized cadres and said: "Xiao Ma, Xiao Chen, you go first
Now, I have something to say with Elder Jin."
After that, she took Jin Xiaoyu to the next room, which was a small office. It was carefully cleaned and very clean, which was very different from the somewhat messy proofreading room outside. Seeing the stationery on the table, she knew
, this is another office of Xiang Tianying.
Thinking of the "Kaohsiung Daily" being printed outside, it suddenly became clear what Xiang Tianying was doing here.
"It turns out you are still the editor-in-chief of Kaohsiung Daily. How disrespectful."
"Don't be joking," Xiang Tianying quickly denied, "The editor-in-chief is Wei Bachi. This is public information and you can check it..."
"Then you will be the editor-in-chief."
"No, not really. I can only be regarded as the editor-in-chief of the supplement."
"I didn't expect that you are really a literary young man." Jin Xiaoyu said, "I especially like to read this supplement. Where did you discover so many authors?"
"There are a lot of talented people in the world, but they just don't have the opportunity to express themselves. I edited this supplement with the idea of letting these 17th-century literary and art lovers temporarily shine."
"You must be sick. You haven't done your own job well. Why are you doing this all day long?" Jin Xiaoyu felt that Xiang Tianying's fishing behavior had reached a new level and couldn't help but remind him, "The school's
There are so many things, but if you don’t think about how to improve them and create supplements... I’m really impressed by you!”
"People always have requirements for leisure and entertainment. Besides, the supplement is also a powerful propaganda position for us to promote new life and new culture..."
"Okay, okay, I can't tell you anything. One more thing, why do you tell others that you are compiling textbooks?"
"Who said that? Hum, I know, it must be Jing Chu! She really betrayed me."
Xiang Tianying's words made Jin Xiaoyu's heart skip a beat. Looking at Xiang Tianying's expression, he realized that "the speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention." He quickly said:
"I forced her to confess! Don't interrupt! You compile the history textbook yourself. Stop talking about it. There are also related documents. I asked Jing Chu to put a separate box for you, which is your personal memorandum.
The content will not be placed in the files of the national school. This matter is considered in the past. You can sign up when Hu Xiang wants to compile history textbooks in the future - but don't say that you have already compiled it. Don't get yourself into trouble.
!As for the supplement, you can save it as much as you want."
Xiang Tianying said with a smile: "You think I want to publish supplements because I like literature and art? There is indeed a little truth to that. But my main purpose is to find a reason to stay in the printing factory."
"why is that?"
"Take a look at this first." He picked up a book and handed it over. It was a book printed by Lingao and sold to Guangzhou. The book itself was nothing fancy, just a life book. Jin Xiaoyu opened the book with suspicion.
Look, there are many places marked with pencils, and you can tell it is Xiang Tianying's calligraphy at a glance.
Jin Xiaoyu didn't understand what was special here and said casually: "Why is your handwriting so bad?"
Xiang Tianying said: "This is not the point. I will let you see the mistakes in it."
Jin Xiaoyu looked at it again: "The proofreading level is indeed a bit poor."
Xiang Tianying put the book back far away and said: "The ones printed in Lingao are better, let alone those printed in Hangzhou. Most of the proofreaders there are old literati, and there is no standard for proofreading at all. In fact, even in Lingao,
The management is also very chaotic. The big library, the truth office, and the printing house are jointly responsible for the publication of books. The proofreading is also very sloppy. The reprinted books from the old time and space have no errors in the first place. The review of the textbooks is more serious, generally for export.
The proofreading of books is not so rigorous. The time limit for newspapers published every day is stricter, and the proofreading is not serious enough. As for Kaohsiung, it is terrible. When I got the "Kaohsiung Daily" for the first time, I was shocked.
…”
"so……"
"What would Wei Bachi think if I directly told him that I wanted to help Kaohsiung Daily with the manuscript review and proofreading work?"
"A dog takes a mouse."
"Yes, so I have to have an honest reason to stay here."
"The reason? Isn't this the printing house affiliated with Kaohsiung National School?"
Xiang Tianying smiled slightly awkwardly and said, "Actually, there are some differences."
It turns out that Wei Bachi originally planned to build not the "Kaohsiung National School Printing Plant" but the "Kaohsiung Printing Plant". However, since there is not much printing demand in Kaohsiung except for teaching materials and newspapers and periodicals, the Kaohsiung Printing Plant and even the Kaohsiung Publishing House
The plan was rejected, so the application was made in the name of "Printing Office Affiliated to the National School".
The "National School Printing House" is actually the city government's printing house. Whether it is personnel, funds or materials, it is all borne by the Kaohsiung City Government. Therefore, it not only prints teaching materials and examination papers, but also is responsible for the "Kaohsiung City Government" issued by the city government.
Printing of daily newspapers.
"But what does proofreading have to do with you? You are a principal and an educator, not a book editor..."
Xiang Tianying said: "Of course, this is my profession. When it comes to editing books, there are still people in the Senate who are better than me, but when it comes to proofreading, I'm afraid no one is better than me."
The threshold for proofreading is low, as long as you can read and write, you can do it, but it is not that easy to do it well. First of all, there is a set of standardized processes. In the old days, it was normal for a book to be proofread by ten people.
After going through the black horse software once, you still need to manually review it again and again.
"...Now it's good if two people read it through. And in order to save paper, we can't revise and print it once like in the old time and space. We can only revise it repeatedly on one manuscript. The proofreading in the old time and space is made of red, blue, green and black lead
There are five kinds of pens. Fountain pens are not popular nowadays. Only red and blue pencils can be used. If a manuscript is revised several times with pencils, how can a typesetter not make mistakes?"
"To be honest, even in the old time and space, I don't think it's much better. There are too many low-level mistakes." Jin Xiaoyu complained.
"That's right, that's right. Although the threshold for proofreading is low, it is not easy to do it well," Xiang Tianying said. Proofreaders must have strong Chinese skills and be familiar with various standards and common errors in the publishing industry.
Sensitivity. You cannot be a complete layman on the content in the book, otherwise you will not be able to detect intellectual errors. These cannot be learned by studying alone, but must be practiced through each manuscript.
"...the two young people outside were transferred from Lingao Times. They were originally responsible for the proofreading of "Lingao Times". They are considered to be very high-level among naturalized citizens. However, they are still not professional enough. I asked them to follow
I will study hard."
Jin Xiaoyu nodded and said, "I understand, you want to pass on your expertise."