Related Clues:

• Cut, say
• Better copy?
• Shorten a text, maybe
• Improve prose
• Add or delete, say
• Revise text
• Do post-production work
• Work on proofs, say
• Emulate Maxwell Perkins
• Correct copy
• Mark one's words, in a way
• Correct errata
• Change, as text
• Rewrite a bit
• Work cutting words