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Re: [xsl] Converting XML into ODT document to print as paper

2020-09-30 04:20:21
BUT…all these solutions depend on the Word file using Names Styles 
consistently, and that's a human (editorial) requirement too.


The first two editions of my book, produced by Wrox in Birmingham UK before the 
Wiley takeover, were done end-to-end in Word right through to final 
camera-ready copy, and it totally relied on authors using a 
closed/locked/shared template with fixed styles and macros. I don't know 
exactly what they did, but as the author you were completely constrained to use 
the fixed styles. You could negotiate changes with the editor (the templates 
could be fine-tuned for each book if there were special requirements e.g. for 
running heads) but you couldn't make them unilaterally. It worked extremely 
well, far better than the Wiley process where the content was lobbed accross 
the wall from editorial to production, who used completely different 
technology, meaning things like indexing and cross-references couldn't be done 
until the final pagination was available, and used technology that wasn't 
available to the author. All the final production work, including indexing, was 
lost when you started work on the next edition.

It's amazing what you can do in Word with the right skill set and with good 
processes.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
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