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Originally Posted by Hitch
what really happens is, many of the things that get changed are only visible, and knowable, and hence fixable, when the book is put into print format. For example, if you are almost any author being legacy-published, and the print formatter ends up with a chapter with an orphaned 5 words, dangling precipitously onto an horrifyingly blank page, there's no magic stick that fixes that.
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I would have tightened up the kerning of that chapter slightly to fix that. Things like that are the layout artist's job, that's one of the reasons why copy edits at that stage are such a pain. If you start telling people they have to re-write to fit your layout you'll just create friction where there's really no need.