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Originally Posted by dwig
The last software to handle the books is the layout software and it is in that form that the last corrections are made.
...the ebook source files must be forked off at some earlier point where the text is in software that can generate files that can be migrated to ebook production tools.
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Thanks for the informative explanation. I always thought the last phase of handling the layout is where most errors (not corrections) would occur - just imagine to change the first letter of the first paragraph of each chapter to some giant size Gothic style monogram - but I have never worked in the publishing industry and would still like to imagine by now they must have some smart applications that can retrofit a typo in an ealier-forked text version (given so many modern xml, markup text languages available). Well, maybe I tend to oversimplify the workflow.