Client spotlight
Biotext
How Biotext used Perfectlt to spot inconsistencies, save time, and ensure quality control
Company overview
Biotext is a writing, editing, design, and publishing company that specializes in scientific and complex subjects. For more than 15 years, Biotext has worked on many reports and guidelines of national and international significance, working with clients in health, agriculture, environment, and government.
Biotext works with challenging documents containing scientific language and technical terminology. The documents have often been prepared by multiple authors using multiple styles, and the documents require several rounds of editing.
The challenge
Make sure large, complex scientific documents are consistent in style and terminology to improve clarity for readers and maintain an excellent reputation with clients.
The solution
Use Perfectlt to spot inconsistencies, save time, and ensure quality control in all projects.
Further development
Biotext has gone on to co-develop the Australian Government style for Perfectlt (available as a free download from our website). Biotext uses the style to ensure consistency for government clients, and it helps them ensure clarity, accuracy, and consistency throughout government publications.
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If publications are important to our clients, then they are very important to us. Perfectlt helps us make sure that all our publications are the best they can be.
Biotext
Principal Communications Writer and Editor
Results
Perfectlt is an essential part of Biotext's processes at all levels of editing. One of the most important strengths of Perfectlt is its ability to pick up inconsistencies in style and spelling, which so often creep in to large and complex documents.
Before using Perfectlt, the only way to ensure consistency in terminology across documents was through time-consuming, manual tracking of each term. By automatically checking for consistency in spelling and style, Perfectlt changed that.
All Biotext staff now use Perfectlt to ensure quality. Perfectlt makes the time-consuming task of correcting inconsistencies quick and easy, which means editors can spend more time improving the clarity and expression of the document. Biotext uses Perfectlt in two key ways:
1. To check consistency of spelling, hyphenation, and capitalization within documents, Biotext uses Perfectlt in its default mode.
2. To check consistency across all documents for the same client, Biotext uses Perfectlt's style sheets (one sheet for each client).
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