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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
What fantastic program created such finely tuned output?
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Good question!
We are advised that it was INDD. However, to be fair, INDD only does this--wraps spans like skin on a salami--when the bookmaker who used it uses what, in "our" language, equates to "inline styling." It is not, in this instance, really INDD's "fault." It's just doing what it was told to do; the odd part seems to be that most of those (nearly one-quarter million! Yowza!) spans seem to be doing NOTHING. I can only infer that the spans had content, and that the book was tweaked over time, to the point where they no longer did...or something like that. Otherwise, it's pretty inexplicable. The file was then, presumably, output to Word.
However--and at this point, I don't know, this is pure speculation--it's not clear if the person in question output the file the way it should be done--export each individual "story" (read; chapter or section) as an RTF, and then assemble them, OR, if they used the dreaded "save as Word" function, which tends to give you dreck similar to what I've described. Adobe and MS Word are not, not, not a happy marriage. {sigh}.
Take that unhappy coupling, and add in a badly-constructed-to-begin-with baby (inline styling) and the resulting manuscript DNA is just not pretty.
Hitch