Translations of 主编 and 总编 in French
主编

Grand Ricci


  Rédacteur en chef (d'un ouvrage collectif).


KEF


  1 rédacteur en chef, compilateur en chef
  2 éditer (une publication)


FLTRP


  rédacteur en chef


CFDICT


  1 rédacteur en chef
  2 diriger la rédaction




总编

CFDICT


  rédacteur en chef (de journal)




Also:

Wikipedia's page for 总编辑 mirrors to the french page for Rédacteur en chef. But the original Chinese page does also mention:


  总编辑，也称总编、主编


So it looks like the Chinese terms are quite interchangeable amongst themselves. 主编 also redirects to the page for 总编辑. I would try not to get too caught up in the semantics of the words.



This seems to be quite a complicated question actually. It's quite a hard one to translate properly and it depends on the context. You can see here for more info here. According to the article one way of translating these back into English is:


主编 = Managing editor 
总编 = Executive editor


So 主编 might be something like Chef d'édition.