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On Wed, 27 Jan 1993, Ada_W.Finifter wrote:

> Although I agree the publisher should do it, as a practical solution,
> it seems to me Peter's friend could avoid all these annoying typesetting
> issues by hiring someone familiar with his word processor to do it.  Someone
> who was more expert with the word processor could probably do the job very
> quickly; it might involve nothing more than inserting a few commands.
> If the friend is using a standard package like WP, it's hard to imagine the
> publisher would not find it easier to do it in-house rather than going through
> this back and forth process with the author.

This is an excellent suggestion if one has the money or gets a grant.  As
a footnote, though, I recently received a grant where the grantors were
perfectly willing to have me use the money to pay the university computing
dept. to scan texts and hire a student to proofread the files so that I
can Textbase or Orbis (I still like Format 6 the best and Orbis won't)
them, but the grant specifically stated that I was not to use any of the
money for "word processing costs" (Thank goodness none of the granting
committee had ever heard of NB or they might have said that Textbasing is
the same as word processing).  I'm not sure of their rationale, but such a
rule would seem to preclude Ada's wise recommendation.

We should also be aware that some scholarly publishing houses these days
are not "houses" at all, but one dedicated scholar who makes deals with
printers, designers, binders, etc., so there is no real "in-house" to do
such work.  Some of these people do an amazing service to scholarship.
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