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From: chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Text Movement Problems....
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Date: 13 Sep 89 16:32:36 GMT
References: <1989Sep9.020234.14411@expert.com>
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In article <1989Sep9.020234.14411@expert.com> dfickes@expert.UUCP (David Fickes) writes:
>Simply put we are receiving a lot of submissions to the 
>magazine through email and on disk in various formats.  Most 
>of the incoming material is in troff (ms) format.  It 
>must end up in a QuarkExpress format after an editing cycle.  

     It isn't clear to me that the authors need any formatting capabilities
at their disposal.  They should just be pouring text into predefined formats,
so why don't they just send in ASCII?  If there are special formatting needs,
they could be handled outside the normal editorial loop.  The only thing I
can think of would be special font usage for certain things, but even that
should be controlled by your house style.

     I would suggest that authors use the tool of their choice, and that
the interdocument format be ASCII.

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