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Originally Posted by CliffB
To st_albert & Hitch:
In your usage case, you are the final editor?? In this case the author has finished and passes the work to you for final editing. In our case we are the author AND the final editor.
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My situation is -- from the standpoint of workflow -- similar to Hitch's, though I do most of my freelance work for a single publisher. I do no actual editing, modulo some occasional copy edits. I get the "final" manuscript as a .doc(x) and either import it into LibreOffice or InDesign, depending on whether there will be a print edition or not. Whether it'd ID or LO, I then apply a set of standard paragraph and character styles ("House styles" intended to give a certain "look and feel" to the manuscript) and remove all "direct" or "ad-hoc" formatting. Then export as epub.
In the LO case, I use the stand-alone javascript "writer2latex.jar" supplied with writer2xhtml, along with heavily customized config.xml and a CSS file that matches the LO styles in name and definitions. It actually works better than ID's "export to digital editions" in terms of the epub being closer to finished product. Then into sigil to add additional metadata and the cover, and maybe some tweaks of the stylesheet.
Typically most of the time is spent cleaning up the .doc(x) styles before export.
BTW we mostly do fiction, with only a few non-fiction titles, so the layout is very simple. E.G. few tables, no equations, sometimes footnotes. Piece of cake.
Albert
PS I also do the revisions of the inevitable errors that only appear after publication
