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Originally Posted by Ankh
I assumed that first step in the process (result of editing and proofreading) is "normalization" to structured format like DocBook, which is then imported as XML into InDesign for pbook creation, script-converted to a myriad of e-book formats (except PDF)... I thought that O'Reilly has closed the DocBook/XML/InDesign loop long time ago?
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O'Reilly might have, but I don't believe other publishers do so. Writers submit manuscripts as Word documents. The Word docs are copy edited and proofread, then imported into InDesign for markup and typesetting. "Normalization" as you think of it doesn't happen.
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Dennis