<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Rich,</DIV><DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Or is it, as in the case with Miss Emily/Florence Typefast/Quackfaster (not to<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">mention her name change in DuckTales to "Mrs. Featherby") which probably centers<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">on editting consistancy?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Far and away the leading cause of such inconsistencies. Editors have all kinds of reasons for letting such things happen - lack of accurate information, lack of communication with other editors, lack of attention to detail, lack of the morning java jolt - but they almost all boil down to simple slip-ups that make it into print. Editors hate to see these happen, because they know they and the readers will have to live with them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A moment on my soapbox: no editor can let him or herself be complacent about errors, and no reader should be expected to be either, but this very mailing list has featured many posts by readers who've seen darker doings behind them. That's not to say that the publishing biz hasn't got its share of dark doings, but very few of them have the purpose of confusing readers. At least, not intentionally.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Gary</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>