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Originally Posted by Alisa
One of the process changes I brought up in one of my old, buried posts is style guides. Stipulate the format submissions must arrive in. Ideally, publishers would endeavor to agree on the format. If they're using the same kind of tools, likely it would evolve that way. Publishers could even make a Word template and tutorial available to the agents and public.
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Word is probably unsuitable for that. But the correct approach is to convert what you get from the author to a format that can be used to automatically create all other formats. That was what I hinted at when I mentioned that SGML was designed for this task.