Digital Directions: ‘Manuscript First’
A more efficient, pragmatic path to cross-platform publishing.
When a well-formed manuscript created in Word's DOCX format adheres to a standard set of style names, it can be automatically processed by software. Therefore, the translation of the book into a variety of delivery formats—such as e-reader, Web and even print—can be automatically generated. This automation is enabled through the use of output templates that also use standard structural labels. By having both the source manuscript and the output templates using the same structural tags, one can be programmatically mapped to another.
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