GlossaryProduction & revisions
STET
STET is the proofreading mark — Latin for "let it stand" — used on a revised shooting script to cancel a change and restore the original text. When a line was altered in a previous revision and the team decides to revert it, STET in the margin tells everyone to ignore the edit and keep the line as it was.
STET means "undo that change, keep the original." It is used when a revision is reversed: rather than silently switching the text back, the script flags STET so the history of the decision is legible.
On coloured revision pages, a STET is itself a tracked change with its own revision mark, because reverting a line is a change from the most recent version. It keeps the revision record honest about what happened.