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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
Also depends on how technical your team is, their current skillsets (do they all know Word or InDesign? Do they even know HTML/CSS?), and how much you can automate beforehand.
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Yabbut, if the client was like that, they wouldn't be contracting the work. Right?
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Maths??? FORGET ABOUT IT!
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Oh, sure, RUB IT IN.
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You're wrong. 
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Nope, you're just addicted to Open Source and you have that mindset that anything NOT OS = "eeevil." But I love ya anyway.
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If you're working B2B, consistently working with the same publisher across hundreds/thousands of documents (Journal articles, or consistently Styled books), then perhaps you can talk... but it would require a lot of customized workflows/backends/tools.
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It's always something. And if you think about it, all this customization, etc.--what's the upside to it? That the client can do the work themselves? (And not pay you, the originator and creator of this out-of-the-box system?)
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And you're always going to come across these insane edge cases (2 columns with 1-column abstract up top? Top/Bottom floats? My book requires text to shrink like Alice in Wonderland?).
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Yep.
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Throwing an author updating things into the mix? Yeesh... that's starting back from square one, unless you have some way to completely control/sanitize their input.
And again, every step in conversion isn't automated, there's still quite a bit of manual labor and checking that has to happen any time you convert between formats.
And Print as output? My gods, the Widows/Orphans alone...
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Indeed. (What are you doing up at what, nearly 3? You're getting as bad as I am with the "no sleep" thing....)
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