有自学青年来信说,他有志于当一名编辑。问当编辑难不难,需要什么条件。这是一个大题目,虽然自已当了多年编辑,对编辑工作也了解不全面。编辑,是“为他人作嫁农裳”的工作,一般都是进行“幕后操作”,“使劲不露面”,因而不少人对于这一行的甘苦并不太了解。“编辑”这个词,有两种不同的涵义。据《辞源》所载,最早见于唐代大书法家颜真卿《干禄字书》序。序文说,当时流行的字体变化繁杂,人们 A self-educated youth letter says he is interested in becoming an editor. When asked to edit is not difficult, what conditions are needed. This is a big issue. Although it has been a part of many years of editing itself, it does not fully understand the editorial work. Editing is the work of “marrying a peasant for others” and generally carries out “behind-the-scenes operations” and “hard work does not show up.” Therefore, many people do not quite understand the painstaking efforts of this industry. The word “editor” has two different meanings. According to “Ci Yuan” contained, first seen in the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Yan Zhenqing “Drum legend” sequence. The preface says that the popular fonts were complicated at that time, people