Are Spelling And/or Grammar Mistakes A Cause For Submitting Errata?
Answer : Let’s be utilitaristic and do a rough, optimistic calculation : First, how much time does correcting a spelling mistake cost? First of all, it costs you some time to find a way to contact somebody from the journal. I ran an experiment with a random journal and it took me three minutes to find a way to contact the chief editor and to ensure that there is no easy way to contact somebody closer to actual typesetting. It costs you about one minute to write the mail. It costs the chief editor (in our example) at least one minute to read the mail and redirect it to typesetting. It costs the head of typesetting at least one minute to delegate the work. Whoever is actually doing the work, has to find the source of the paper, correct the mistake, check whether the whole paper is still neatly arranged (even if the correction did not alter the number of lines in the paragraph, the linebreaking algorithm or the font might have slightly changed) and every sentence is still on t...